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October 29 20082008-10-29October 29 20082008-10-29October 29 20082008-10-29October 29 20082008-10-29October 29 20082008-10-29A photograph taken inside a dim room with a glass-fronted wooden cabinet. Inside the cabinet sits a seated statue of a sage wearing saffron robes, an orange turban and a rudraksha mala, with one hand raised. In front of the cabinet a young man in an orange kurta with a black rudraksha mala stands facing the viewer, while several people in saffron and white clothing, one with an orange head wrap, gather in the foreground with their backs partly turned. Brass oil lamps hang from the ceiling on the right, and a small brass lamp sits on a low wooden table. The glass reflects the room's lights.2009-12-30April 23 20162016-04-23A photograph of a temple doorway lined with bulb lights and garlands. Inside, a priest with bare upper body stands before a deity murti with a golden arch and garlands, performing an aarti with a lamp. In the foreground, a man in an orange turban and orange robe stands with his back to the camera, hands joined in prayer. On the left, a bald man in white clothes and a second man in white hair with a yellow-orange shawl also stand with palms pressed together. Marigold garlands and white flower strings decorate the frame and the altar. Three people are visible, plus the priest, making four physical people.2005-12-31A photo inside a shrine room with a silver-framed deity murti, its base strung with yellow marigold garlands, flanked by tall brass lamps. In the foreground at left, a bald man in a pale yellow robe stands with palms pressed together in namaskar before the shrine. At right, a figure in orange robes and an orange turban, with long dark hair, also stands with palms joined toward a white marble niche carved with a figure. A third person in orange clothing stands in the background at left. The shrine has a gold-trimmed pink and gold offering table with brass vessels, and a small lamp burns on the table. Three people are visible in total.2008-10-29April 23 20162016-04-23A photograph inside a plain room with a corrugated metal roof and a small kalasha-topped miniature ratha or palanquin with red and patterned canopy and golden base at centre. A man in saffron-orange turban and orange robe, with long swept-back hair, stands at left-centre near a wooden table, facing right toward the shrine. Several saffron-clad monks with shaved heads and orange turbans stand in the foreground and background, and a whiteboard on an easel is visible at right. Brass hanging lamps hang from the ceiling. a person appears to be the man in the orange turban with long hair, based on the saffron clothing and turban; his identity is uncertain.2009-12-11January 13 20152015-01-13