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A dense crowd of devotees presses into a small tiled interior room with a carved wooden doorway and grilled windows, many people raising hands and reaching toward a central figure visible in the doorway area. A saffron-clad figure with a shaved head stands at the centre among the crowd, arms raised. Women wear colourful sarees in pink, orange, red and yellow, with white and orange flower garlands in their hair. Men wear white shirts and dhotis. A staircase is visible at the left and a framed picture hangs beside the right window.

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June 24 20142014-06-24June 24 20142014-06-24June 24 20142014-06-24June 24 20142014-06-24A dense crowd presses toward a carved wooden doorway in a tiled interior, with a window grille on each side. Devotees, mostly women in bright saris, some with flowers in their hair and holding flower garlands and offering plates, reach up with raised hands. At the centre of the doorway, a figure in orange-saffron robes stands with one arm raised in greeting, with a cluster of monks in saffron behind him. A framed printed picture is propped in the doorway at lower right. Several people on a staircase at the left look on. The crowd is large but the count of people visible in the frame falls in a broad range.2014-06-24A photograph of a long covered hall with a tin roof and green garland decorations, where a dense crowd lines both sides of a central aisle to receive blessings. Several saffron-robed figures stand in the aisle, one in a deep orange robe with a bare shaved head, handing items to people reaching forward. A man in white clothing and a lanyard badge stands near the left edge, and a painted deity image hangs at the far end of the hall beneath colourful patterned pillars. Crowd members wear white, green and pink saris and shirts.2009-12-20A crowded indoor room in a house visit during the Tamil Nadu Vijaya Yatra, with many people seated and standing close together. In the foreground, a figure holds up a silver trident (trishul) toward the group. A woman in a white saree with gold border holds a small child in orange clothing, while other women wear saffron and orange saris and rudraksha malas, and men wear white shirts and dhotis, some with saffron shawls. A young woman in a white saree with folded hands sits at lower left beside a man in orange with a rudraksha mala. Many people are gathered in a domestic setting with cream walls and a wooden window grille at right.2014-06-24A dense crowd presses toward an open doorway framed by an ornate carved wooden arch with a carved deity panel above and white jasmine garlands hanging from it. Many people reach their arms up and over the crowd, some holding folded paper or objects. Men in white shirts and women in yellow, orange, red and blue saris and salwar kameez with flowers in their hair fill the foreground. A glimpse of an interior room with framed pictures is visible through the doorway. Pale walls and a window with a grille sit to the right.2009-08-08June 19 20142014-06-19 +1 copiesA crowded indoor scene with devotees pressing forward in a hallway decorated with green leaf-and-flower garlands and orange cloth. A bare-chested man with long dark hair wears a white and yellow flower garland and a red-and-gold wrap, smiling and surrounded by people reaching toward him. In front, a shaved-headed man in an orange-saffron robe with a white forehead mark stands among devotees in white shirts and dhotis. Several women in saris and people holding folded papers fill the frame, with a red-brick wall at the right edge.2014-07-03A dense crowd of devotees presses toward a doorway in a white-washed wall, the doorway framed with a wooden surround and hung with green leaf garlands and a flower strand. In the foreground, a man with white hair wears a white shirt and a rudraksha mala, his hands extended with palms together to receive or offer something. Around him, people in white shirts, a man in an orange t-shirt and women in saris and glasses crowd close. Two small wall-mounted notice boards flank the doorway. Devotional darshan gathering at a temple-like entrance.2008-07-29June 27 20142014-06-27