September 16 2016 - Nithyanandapedia

Nithyanandapedia

September 16 2016

More like this

Open the gallery

December 20 2015

January 01 2019

A photograph of a ritual food offering in a hall. In the foreground, an older woman in a rust-brown sari sits on the left, handing golden-yellow food from a large silver-rimmed brass tray. A woman in white with a white hairnet and rudraksha mala takes an offering from the tray. Beside her, a young person with long dreadlocked hair in a bun and orange saffron robes receives food with cupped hands. Behind them, several people in orange saffron robes stand, and a laptop sits on a purple cloth. No clear visible a person candidate is present.

A photograph of a ritual food offering in a temple-like hall. A large silver bowl holds cooked yellow rice with vegetables. A woman in an orange-brown sari with rudraksha mala kneels at left, scooping the rice, while a woman in white and gold kasavu-style dress with a hairnet and forehead tilak watches beside her. At right, a white-haired woman in orange robes and a rudraksha mala kneels, cupping rice in her hands, and a younger woman in orange stands at far right wearing rudraksha beads. Other saffron-robed devotees stand in the background near a monitor and tripod.

June 13 2013

A photograph of a ritual offering in progress. In the foreground, a bare-chested person with long dark hair and a swept-back style wears a saffron-orange shawl and gold bangles, reaching forward to scoop cooked yellow rice from a large brass bowl placed on a gold tray. Beside him, a shaved-headed priest in orange-red robes with white tripundra markings on his forehead holds his hands out to receive the offering, wearing a beaded rudraksha-style mala and an orange shawl. A third figure bows low behind the bowl in orange clothing. Other orange-robed people with white forehead markings and malas sit or stand in the background, in a bright hall with white fittings.

2013-04-01 +1 copies

December 20 2015

2015-12-20 +1 copies

January 01 2019

July 12 2016

A photograph of a communal food offering being prepared in a hall with orange and red clothing. In the foreground, a woman in a rust-red sari with a rudraksha mala kneels and pours yellow rice from a steel bowl into a large silver bowl. A woman in a cream sari with a green blouse leans in holding a steel vessel, and a woman in cream and gold with a rudraksha necklace stands beside them. On the right, a person in an orange shawl with a bare back and a turban-style hairstyle holds out cupped hands, and a young girl in orange with a bindi and rudraksha mala presses her palms together. Other people in orange clothing stand in the background.

August 02 2016

A photograph of a ritual food preparation at an ashram event. Four women and one young man are seated on a colourful striped mat around a large silver bowl of yellow rice mixed with herbs. A man with bare upper body and a wide orange shawl sits in front, mixing the rice with both hands, while a woman in an orange-red sari with gold-bordered sleeves and rudraksha mala reaches into the bowl. A woman in a cream-and-gold Kerala-style sari, white hairnet and red-brown beaded necklace watches, and a young woman in orange robes with white forehead markings stands at right. Orange-robed devotees stand in the background.