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A photograph inside a limestone cave showing a large, smooth rounded rock formation as a Shiva lingam-style sacred stone, its surface painted with yellow tilak-like markings and dusted with yellow marigold petals and red and pink powders. Red and gold cloth draped over the top of the stone sits beneath stalactites hanging from the cave ceiling. The cave walls are pale and the surrounding area is dark. No people are visible.

September 20 2011

Overhead view inside a temple shrine. A dark black stone lingam sits in a square silver-edged basin, surrounded by a ring of marigold flowers and scattered petals, with a carved serpent coiled around its base. Above it hang blue cloth, marigold and multi-coloured garlands, and a rudraksha-type bead mala. Two people in orange robes are seated at the lower edge: one at the left edge, partly visible, and one at the right kneeling and reaching toward the lingam with hands near the flowers. Brass ornaments and a silver-framed niche line the walls.

A photograph inside a dim rock cave shrine with rough stone walls. In the foreground, a man in a checked white shirt and grey trousers, wearing an orange shawl and a rudraksha mala, bends forward with his hands joined and reaches toward a natural rock formation marked with yellow flower petals, pink powder and a red hibiscus. A brass bell sits on a stone ledge. Behind him, a man in a blue shirt with an orange shawl and forehead markings stands near a figure in white dhoti with a yellow cloth. A man in a brown vest and orange shawl stands at the right edge. No a person candidate is clearly identifiable by the listed cues, so the figure is best described as a devotee at the shrine.

Overhead photograph inside a small temple sanctum of a Shiva lingam set in a square stone yoni base surrounded by marigold and rose petals and green leaves. A coiled metal serpent sits above it near a blue-draped deity murti decorated with garlands. Two people in saffron-orange robes with white undergarments kneel at the edges of the frame, one on each side.

Interior of a dim stone shrine viewed from above, centred on a black shivalinga set in a square silver-edged base ringed with marigold garlands and green leaves. Above it hangs a large carved stone face with a flower garland, and a turquoise cloth drapes the back wall. A brass cobra-hooded serpent, a brass trident and a small brass oil lamp frame the sides, and rose-coloured rudraksha-style beads hang on the left. Two people in saffron-orange robes kneel at the edges of the frame, one in white trousers, one showing red cloth, their bodies only partly visible.

November 10 2006

Close-up photograph of a dark grey stone Shivalinga being touched by a hand. A hand with a bangle on the wrist and red-painted fingernails presses a small smear of orange-yellow paste. The linga's base shows a red band and it sits on a grey pedestal. The background is blurred, with warm orange and gold tones. No face is visible.

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December 17 2014

A photograph of a temple abhishekam. A long-haired man in an orange-saffron garment pours water from a golden vessel over a black stone shivalinga on a black pedestal. Nearby, a shaved-headed man in orange robes and a gold-beaded necklace stands beside a brass ritual lamp stand. In the foreground a man in white clothes lies prostrate on the wet floor, with orange-robed devotees and white-clad attendants gathered around. Water sprays across the scene, and a red curtain hangs at the left beside a carved stone pillar. a person: the long-haired man in saffron clothing is a candidate for the presiding figure pouring the abhishekam.