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Night-time photo of a temple shrine area with a roofed open veranda and grey stone pillars. On the left, a deity murti in blue and gold with a marigold garland and an oil lamp on the altar, plus a bowl of flowers and leaves offered before it. A woman in orange robes with long dark hair stands barefoot with palms pressed together in prayer. Beside her, a man in orange robes and a shaved head stands with hands folded, and a man in white dhoti and shawl with rudraksha mala stands with hands folded in devotion. Red pillars and a red-walled room appear at right.

August 02 2008

A dimly lit temple interior with yellow and orange marigold garlands strung across the ceiling and a bright light overhead. In the centre, a man with long dark hair wears a saffron-orange dhoti and a yellow-orange garland, with gold bangles on his arm, and holds his hands together near his chest. Beside him, a bare-chested priest in an orange-brown cloth faces the shrine, and a white-clad man stands to the left with a shawl over his shoulder. A large brass oil lamp with several lit wicks stands on the right beside a dark stone deity murti. Several other men in white shirts and dhotis stand in the background.

Interior temple corridor at dusk with a lit deity murti at the far end, illuminated by lamps and a glowing halo. Several people in orange and saffron clothing stand and walk toward the shrine; a bald man in orange robes with rudraksha-style beaded necklace leads, a woman in a reddish-brown sari with a pink garland stands beside him, and a woman in a yellow and green border sari stands at right near a metal door latch. The corridor is dimly lit with hanging bulbs and oil lamps, and a yellow wall is visible at right. Offerings and an attendant are at the lower left edge.

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December 30 2008

June 05 2012

Photograph inside a temple hall during a ritual. On the left, a bare-chested priest in white dhoti holds a lit oil lamp toward a garlanded deity murti seated on a golden palanquin with red and pink flower garlands. Three saffron-robed men stand in the centre and right with hands folded in prayer; one central figure wears a gold necklace, crown-like headwear and orange shawl, another has long hair and a rudraksha mala, and the rightmost wears orange with gold border and a wristwatch. Behind them stand white-clad devotees and an elderly man in white. Orange and red festoons hang overhead.

July 13 2009

May 21 2012

Interior of a stone temple corridor with carved pillars and painted colonnades. A figure in a long-haired orange-red robe with a gold-beaded necklace stands at center with palms pressed together in greeting, facing a group of devotees and a uniformed officer. Behind them, several people in orange and saffron robes and white dhotis cluster near a carved stone elephant-headed deity sculpture at right. A bare-backed priest in a white cloth stands in the foreground near the sculpture and a metal railing. Swamiji (probable): the central figure in red-orange with long swept-back hair, a gold-beaded necklace and folded hands matches the page's Swamiji claim on cues of long hair, orange clothing and ceremonial gold beads, so this is an in_person candidate.

July 29 2008

Photograph inside a dim stone temple corridor with carved pillars and a narrow doorway lit from the right. Several saffron-clad men with shaved heads and white tilak marks stand in a group, many wearing gold-coloured beaded necklaces and rudraksha malas. A man in the centre-right wears saffron robes with an orange shawl and holds his hands in namaste. Another man in a white dhoti with a saffron border stands near the doorway. A white-shirted man stands at the left edge, and a bare-chested man with a red-marked forehead stands at the far right. The figures appear to be devotees or sannyasis moving through a temple passage.