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Outdoor scene beside a huge banyan tree with aerial roots and spreading branches, standing on a stone-paved courtyard marked with white chalk lines. Six men stand in a loose group. On the left, a man in a pink shirt and green lungi gestures. Next, a man in a white shirt and white dhoti points toward the ground. An older man in white dhoti and shawl, barefoot, stands centre. Two men on the right wear a blue shirt with green lungi and a yellow shirt with orange dhoti, and one man in a checked shirt stands at the far right. Pale stone slabs and a low red brick border surround the tree base.2018-02-01A large banyan tree with many hanging aerial roots dominates the scene, with a group of people gathered around its base on reddish-brown earth. Several people wear orange and saffron clothing, including a man in orange on the right holding a spade, and a man in an orange top and dhoti in the centre. Others wear white kurtas, a woman in a white sari with green border and a woman in a white top with purple leggings stand on the left, and a man in a pink shirt and black trousers stands in the middle. A person in a grey top and shorts stands barefoot on the right, holding a spade. Two shovels lie among the group near a small cavity at the tree base.2016-09-11February 01 20182018-02-01September 04 20162016-09-04Outdoor photo beneath a large, sprawling banyan tree with many hanging aerial roots and thick low branches. Several people in orange and saffron clothing stand gathered near a wooden post at the left, including a bare-chested man in a white dhoti and a man in a red-brown dhoti pressing against the trunk side. Women in orange saris and a woman in a blue-and-pink sari stand nearby. At the right, a seated woman in white sits beside a man in an orange robe on a raised platform, with a small shrine area and a colourful deity murti nearby. A smaller figure in orange stands at the center on sandy ground beside a hose. Green shrubs grow in the foreground.2016-09-04Outdoor photo beneath a large banyan tree at Nithyananda Peetham, where a paved courtyard is marked with yellow and white painted layout lines for a temple. A man in saffron-orange robe with long dark hair and a dark beard stands centre-left, with a bare-chested man in red-orange cloth beside him at right, and another in orange robe and a woman in red-orange sari at left. A man in a white dhoti with a green-bordered shawl gestures with his hand, and standing figures in white and purple clothing are behind him. Aerial banyan roots and a golden structure appear in the background.2018-02-01February 01 20182018-02-01Outdoor photo beneath a large, sprawling banyan tree with many hanging aerial roots and thick horizontal limbs. A white circular platform surrounds the trunk. Several women in sarees gather around the tree: one in a red-and-black saree reaches toward the trunk, another in pink and orange, and others in pink, orange and blue saris stand nearby. A man in a white shirt sits on the platform edge, and men in light and dark shirts sit or stand at the lower left and background. A young boy in red stands near the white wall. The setting appears to be a temple-style courtyard with sunlight filtering through the leaves.2010-01-17A photograph of devotees gathered at the base of a large banyan tree with dense aerial roots and sprawling limbs in an outdoor shrine area. Several people in orange and saffron garments and white dhotis stand in a cluster near a small roped-off enclosure, some reaching toward the tree trunk. A bare-chested man in an orange cloth stands at the front of the group, and a woman in a green sari and another in a pink sari stand to the left. A small figure in orange robes stands further right near a red-painted structure, and a woman in white sits on a bench at the far right. Tall railings and a red shrine structure are visible beyond the tree.2016-09-04Outdoor photograph beneath a large, sprawling banyan tree with thick aerial roots and dense canopy. Many devotees, mostly women in saffron and orange saris and salwar, some in white and blue, crowd around the tree trunk and its lower branches on reddish-brown earth. A few people are climbing or standing on the branches, and others crouch or kneel near the base. A woman in a vivid red-orange sari stands in the foreground, and a figure in a yellow garment crouches at left. Small offering-like objects and a metal stand sit near the trunk. The scene suggests a tree-related ritual gathering.2016-09-04February 01 20182018-02-01December 31 20092009-12-31