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A photograph of an ashram food offering. In the centre, a person in a brown and gold sari with a brown turban, heavy gold necklaces, gold bangles and a jewelled headpiece serves rice from a banana leaf with both hands, beside a gold armlet. To the left, a bald man in saffron robes with rudraksha malas serves from a steel plate. Behind them, saffron-clad devotees and a smiling woman in a dark-red sari stand near a red box, with other people in the background.

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Indoor ritual scene in a hall with pink walls and red curtained windows. A central figure in a maroon-and-gold turban, gold necklaces and bangles, and a golden-bordered cream shawl over a bare upper body reaches toward a silver plate of food on banana leaves. Around him, several people in saffron-orange robes wear rudraksha malas, including a shaved-headed man holding a plate and a woman in maroon robes. Men in white dhotis and a spectator in glasses stand in the background, with a bare-headed man on the right gesturing toward the plate. The scene reads as an offering of prasadam. a person identity is uncertain: the central figure's turban, gold jewellery and bare-chested adornments are compatible cues, but the face and presentation are not clearly conclusive.2013-11-02November 02 20132013-11-02November 02 20132013-11-02A crowded indoor festival scene where a shaved-headed monastic in an orange-saffron robe with rudraksha malas and a sacred ash mark on his forehead holds a steel plate of round sweets. Next to him a person in a rust-coloured turban and gold-embroidered cream and gold garments with gold necklaces and bangles reaches to take sweets from the plate. Behind them, other saffron-robed men carry trays of sweets and sweet squares, and several women in saffron and red saris stand nearby. Devotees, including a child in a white shirt, reach forward to receive prasad. Yellow and orange draped cloth decorates the background table.2013-11-02A smiling person in a maroon and gold turban with a jeweled brooch stands centre-frame wearing a gold-bordered cream shawl over a maroon garment, layered gold necklaces with a large pendant, and gold bangles. They hold a silver tray of sweets and fried snacks on green leaves, offering to a man in a grey shirt at lower right who reaches toward the food. Behind them, women in green and red saris and robed attendants in orange-brown stand in a hall with red curtains and a pink wall.2013-11-02November 02 20132013-11-02November 02 20132013-11-02Indoor photo at a KAILASA event hall with red curtains and white walls. A central figure in a maroon turban with a gold ornament, a cream shawl over the shoulder, long gold necklaces, gold bangles and a gold waist sash, reaches out to offer sweets to a woman in a red head wrap and gold earrings. Nearby, a saffron-robed man with a rudraksha mala stands at left, and another saffron-robed man with gold beads and a rudraksha mala stands at right. A young woman in a pink sari and a girl in red look on, and a tray of laddus and a steel plate of sweets and rice sit in the foreground.2013-11-02A photograph of a woman in a brown and gold sari with a rust-coloured turban and heavy gold necklaces, bangles and armlets, smiling as she reaches into a steel plate of yellow flowers on a green leaf. Beside her, a shaved-headed man in orange robes with a rudraksha mala and a white-and-red forehead mark holds the plate. Another woman in a maroon sari and rudraksha mala stands behind them, with more people in the background of a plain room with pink walls and red curtains.2013-11-02A crowded ritual gathering where a woman in a maroon turban with a jewelled ornament and a gold-bordered cream and gold sari stands with heavy gold necklaces and bangles, offering sweets from a plate. Around her, saffron-clad men in rudraksha malas hold trays of sweets and fruit, while a bald man in white with a rudraksha mala faces away, embracing a child in a teal shirt. Women in saris stand behind, some wearing identification badges.2013-11-02November 02 20132013-11-02Photograph of a festive annadan or prasadam distribution in a bright hall. A person in a maroon turban, gold-bordered brown and gold dhoti, and heavy gold necklaces holds a silver plate of round sweets and hands them to a woman with hair pulled back. Around them, shaven-headed men in saffron-orange robes and rudraksha malas carry plates of fruit, sweets and snacks. Devotees in saris, including a woman in a purple sari, watch and reach forward. Red cloths are draped over the plates and a stall of wrapped sweets stands at right.2013-11-02