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Outdoor photo of a sandy ashram courtyard with palm trees, where devotees sit in rows on small dark ash-covered mats in front of white shrine platforms and a black stone deity murti. Most participants wear white clothing with orange or yellow shawls. Several sit cross-legged over smoking fire pits, and one person in white stands at the right edge. A tall stone pillar with garlands and a trident marker stand near a red pedestal, with white pigeons on the ground. Dark-skinned earth mounds lie among the mats.

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August 08 20102010-08-08August 08 20102010-08-08 +1 copiesOutdoor photo at dawn or dusk of a dirt courtyard set with many circular fire pits lined with dark ash and blue-grey ash rings, where devotees sit cross-legged in rows. Most sit in white clothes with orange or saffron shawls, and some wear yellow shawls. Smoke rises from a fire pit at right. Behind them stand a tall wooden pole wrapped in garlands, white stepped platforms, a dark stone deity murti or statue on a white base, and tall coconut palms against a pale sky. A green information board stands at left. The scene resembles a pancha tapas fire penance practice. No individual is clearly identifiable as a person.2010-08-10 +1 copiesAugust 08 20102010-08-08 +1 copiesOutdoor photo of an open courtyard at a temple complex lined with coconut palms. In the centre, a tall wooden pillar rises behind a white stepped plinth. About twenty seated participants in white clothes with yellow shawls sit cross-legged on circular patterns on the sand, several with hands folded in meditation. One figure in the foreground wears an orange robe and sits in front of the plinth with a lamp before him. Stone deity sculptures stand at the left edge, and white pigeons and grey pigeons perch on a red-and-white striped platform in the foreground.2010-07-15August 08 20102010-08-08 +1 copiesOutdoor photo of a ritual courtyard lined with coconut palms under an open sky. A tall orange pillar-like shrine with garlands stands at center, with a seated black stone deity murti before it on an orange base. In front, a seated figure in orange robes sits in meditation beside a square fire pit set into a white platform. Around the courtyard, about a dozen seated men in white dhotis and orange or yellow garments sit in meditation at small circular pits. Stone sculptures of figures stand along the left side. Two pigeons walk on the concrete platform in the foreground.2010-09-16August 08 20102010-08-08 +1 copiesAugust 15 20102010-08-15August 08 20102010-08-08 +1 copiesAugust 08 20102010-08-08 +1 copiesOutdoor photo of a temple courtyard with a tall copper-colored flagstaff (dhvajastambha) rising among white-painted shrine platforms and palm trees. Several people sit cross-legged in neat circular rings of gravel on sandy ground. Most wear white clothing; a few wear yellow or saffron scarves. One figure in a saffron-orange robe sits near the center right, and a nandi bull statue with a garland stands near the white platforms.2010-07-15