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A photograph of a shaved-headed priest in a purple dhoti-style garment with a bare upper body, wearing a long rudraksha mala and rudraksha armlets. He holds a silver lamp with a bright flame in one hand and a small silver bell in the other during a pada-puja at a temple shrine. Behind him, the shrine is decorated with multicoloured marigold garlands in red, yellow, purple and green, and a smoky haze of incense hangs in the air.

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Outdoor photograph of a man performing aarti with a silver lamp flame beside a deity shrine decorated with colourful garlands. He has long dark hair in a bun, bare upper arm, and wears a purple garment with a red-and-gold bordered wrap, with rudraksha malas around his neck and arms. In his other hand he holds a silver bell. Blurred trees and dry ground fill the background, and red flowers lie at the lower left.2011-12-14A man in a red and purple sacred garment performs an aarti with a silver lamp holding a flame, outdoors among trees. He wears layered rudraksha malas around his neck and wrists, and his hair is tied in a bun. Visible at left are colourful garlands and a red cloth near a deity murti, and smoke rises from the flame.2011-12-14Photograph of a Hindu temple ritual with a young man in a purple headband and bare chest wearing a rudraksha mala and gold ornaments, holding a brass tray with a lit aarti lamp with multiple flames and flower petals. A second man with his back to the camera, wearing a purple silk shawl and gold neck ornament, receives the flame. Behind them stands a pillar garlanded with yellow, red and white flowers, and a green cloth backdrop.2018-04-14May 26 20132013-05-26 +2 copiesJune 28 20142014-06-28 +1 copiesJune 28 20142014-06-28 +1 copiesA priest in a purple dhoti with a red-and-gold shawl and a rudraksha mala performs aarti with a lit camphor lamp in a silver holder and a handbell in his other hand, before a deity murti draped in purple cloth, framed by garlands in yellow, red and green. Red offerings are heaped at the base. Behind him an assistant in white clothes and a white forehead marking holds a tray of flowers and offerings. The setting is an open outdoor shrine among trees, labelled as a pada-puja at the Bidadi temple.2011-12-14April 14 20182018-04-14A man in a rust-red and saffron-bordered dhoti and upper cloth stands beside a deity murti decorated with a dense garland of marigolds and leaves in red, yellow, white and green. He holds a silver five-flame aarti lamp with lit oil lamps toward the decorated figure, as in an aarti offering. He wears a long mala of dark beads and a rudraksha-style necklace, a beaded armband, and white vertical tilak markings with a red dot on his forehead. The murti at left has an ornate gold ornament. The image is a photograph of a ritual puja. Visible people: one, the lamp-bearing priest.2014-11-11May 26 20132013-05-26A seated man in an orange-saffron cloth and a long garland of pink and white flowers with gold beads holds a silver oil lamp (aarti) with a large flame in one hand and a silver bell in the other. In front of him stands a silver puja tray with a small silver shrine and a metal deity figurine, with a silver pitcher and a bowl nearby. Bright marigold and flower garlands and a golden decorated backdrop fill the background. A tall, smoky flame rises from the lamp. a person performs aarti at the puja, with a sandalwood or kumkum mark on his forehead and gold armlets on his arm.2013-05-27December 14 20112011-12-14 +1 copies