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Outdoor photo beside a white-walled building with a corrugated awning, showing a figure in a flowing orange robe with long dark hair standing barefoot-sandalled on a concrete floor decorated with white chalk kolam. Beside them a man in white dhoti and orange shawl holds a small brass vessel and a folded orange cloth, while another man in a white shirt and white dhoti stands at right, watching. Construction debris, bricks, stone blocks and a wood pile lie on dirt at left, with trees and a wire fence behind. Two more people in white and yellow-sashed clothing stand under the awning in the background. The orange-robed figure has appearance cues consistent with the page's reference to a person, but identity is uncertain.

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December 15 20092009-12-15December 15 20092009-12-15December 15 20092009-12-15A photograph of two men outdoors beside a whitewashed building with a barred window and a stack of stone blocks at left. The man at left wears an orange saffron robe draped over the shoulder and long dark hair, holding a white folded cloth or flower-like offering in his hand. The man at right wears a white dhoti and kurta with an orange shawl and his long hair tied back, holding a brass tray with white offerings, from which he picks up an item with his fingers. A third man in the background wears a white garment with a yellow shawl. Three people are visible in the scene, the foreground pair performing an offering-like exchange.2009-12-09A smiling man with long dark hair and a flowing orange saffron robe walks barefoot across a grassy patch beside a concrete plinth and a small black post in a sandy yard. Behind him, a man in white dhoti and orange shawl with a beaded necklace stands near a building with a dark lattice door. To the right, an older man with glasses wears white clothing and an orange shawl, and a younger man in white stands near a large black water tank. Scrubby trees and a low fence stand in the background.2006-09-19October 07 20062006-10-07Outdoor photograph of a ritual exchange in front of a whitewashed building with a wooden-framed window and an open doorway. A long-haired figure in saffron-orange robes, with a bare upper body and a draped orange cloth, leans forward holding a small silver dish with offerings over an orange cloth tray. A man in a white shirt and white dhoti with a red border and an orange shawl receives it, while another man in white clothes stands at right, half-turned toward the group. Two men in white robes with yellow shawls stand in the shadowed doorway behind them. Wooden planks, a stack of firewood and debris lie on the ground at left, with a ladder leaning against the wall. Appearance-based candidate: a person, identifiable by long hair and saffron-orange robes with a bare upper body.2009-12-15A photograph of three men standing on an unfinished concrete slab beside a partly built wall of grey cinder blocks, with a thatched structure and open fields behind. On the left, a bearded man in white kurta and dhoti wears an orange shawl with rudraksha beads and gold bracelets, hands folded. In the centre, a man in a white kurta and white dhoti carries a red shoulder bag. On the right, a man with long swept-back hair wears an orange saffron robe with a rudraksha mala, hands together, facing right. Wooden poles and a coiled hose lie on the ground.2006-11-23August 09 20072007-08-09December 15 20092009-12-15Outdoors on a dirt path at an ashram-style compound, a man in an orange saffron shawl with long dark swept-back hair walks in the centre, with a smiling expression and one hand raised. He wears an orange wrap over an orange garment. To his left, a man in white kurta with an orange shawl walks beside him, and to his right a barefoot man in white dhoti and orange shawl holds a walking cane. Behind them a crowd of devotees in white and light clothing walks along low red-brick borders, with a tiled-roof building and white walls in the background.2006-10-08September 19 20062006-09-19