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A photo inside a temple shrine room with white marble floors and dark tiled platforms. A bare-chested priest with short dark hair and glasses, wearing a white dhoti with red-and-gold border and a rudraksha mala, stands at right holding a small ritual implement raised toward the upper wall. On the left, a golden lion-like carved figure stands above a black pedestal, with a deity murti and an orange-draped figure beside. Brass oil lamp, a platter of marigold garlands, bowls of offerings, fruit including apples and bananas, steel vessels, and a brass puja plate with incense sticks are arranged on the altar surfaces. A red-robed figure on a throne-like seat appears in the background.

Inside a temple shrine, a shirtless man in a white dhoti with a gold border stands bending over a deity murti of Devi Visalakshi, decorated with blue and gold garments and garlands of yellow marigolds and red roses. He holds a small lamp or arati flame and a spouted vessel while performing puja. Behind the goddess are dark-stone deity murtis adorned with white and red garlands, and a golden arched prabhavali frame. Brass and silver puja plates with fruit, sweets, kumkum, a folded blue silk cloth and gold jewellery sit on an orange cloth in the foreground, with a row of small brass lamps on the right.

2022-11-30 +3 copies

Two bare-chested men in white dhotis stand in a temple shrine room before a golden carved lion-and-sculpted pillar and a statue of a goddess in a green and gold sari with silver jewelry. The man on the left, bald and wearing a rudraksha mala, stands with hands folded. The man on the right, with glasses and a pendant necklace, holds a brass lamp and a small vessel while an oil lamp burns on a brass tray on a round wooden stand. In front, a table with a red cloth holds steel bowls of rice, yellow dal, orange sweet, papadums, and red curry, plus a stainless pot of yellow food. Small deity figures and a black lingam-like form sit on a side shelf.

2022-05-08 +1 copies

A bare-chested priest in a white dhoti with a gold border and a gold-and-green headpiece stands at left, holding a brass bell in one hand and incense sticks with smoke in the other, performing a ritual offering. Before him is a draped maroon altar table bearing brass bowls with gold lids, marigold and red flower garlands, and a teal and gold-bordered cloth covering a decorated coconut-form image with a pink flower. Brass oil lamps stand at right and a brass plate with a small lamp sits in the foreground. Behind are gold-accented shrines with deity murtis, including a Ganesha figure and a figure in orange and white draped with garlands, plus a garlanded deity with a gold necklace in the upper right. Rudraksha mala and gold ornaments are visible on the priest. This appears to be an aarti or puja at a temple shrine.

A seated priest bare-chested with a white dhoti bordered in gold performs a puja at a temple altar. He wears a face mask and holds a lit multi-wick brass aarti lamp toward a platter of offerings. Three small yellow and pink decorated kalasha-style figures with flower garlands sit on a red-draped altar, with gold-framed shrine niches and deity murtis behind. Brass plates hold bananas, apples, mangoes, a pineapple, dates and rice, and marigold petals and leaves are laid on a low wooden stand. Gold lamps and a bell are nearby.

2022-09-28 +1 copies

2022-09-28 +1 copies

KAILASA SAN JOSE, USA on 4/30/2022

2022-04-30 +1 copies

A photograph inside a temple shrine room. An older man with a bare upper torso, a white dhoti, a rudraksha mala and a wristwatch stands bent over at a white counter, pouring liquid from a brass vessel onto a metal tray. The tray holds a small figure decorated with orange and white marigold garlands and a red cloth. Brass oil lamps, a small brass pot and steel bowls of offerings sit nearby. Behind him, golden deity figures and statues stand on pedestals, and a sign reads KAILASA TORONTO CANADA. The setting is a ritual abhishekam or puja.

A photograph inside a temple shrine where a bare-chested man in a white dhoti with a gold-bordered cloth, barefoot and bending forward, waves a lit lamp (aarti) before a black-stone deity figure in a red and gold sari, decorated with white and orange marigold garlands, a silver crown and a silver necklace, seated on an orange cloth-covered platform. Behind the central figure stand two dark deity murti in gold-framed arches with red drapes, with a decorated pillar with yellow and blue patterns at left. Rows of small gold oil lamps, yellow flower petals, and red and yellow flower vases surround the platform, and a brass pot sits on a tray at lower left. A laptop is visible at the bottom left edge.

2022-09-29 +1 copies

A seated priest with a shaved head and bare chest wears a white dhoti with gold border and a face mask, holding a lit oil lamp over an offering tray during a Satyanarayana puja. Three painted clay-style deity murti or decorated forms sit on a red cloth before an altar with carved white pillars. Behind them stand ornate deity statues in gold frames, garlanded and dressed in colourful silk. Brass plates hold bananas, green apples, pineapple, mango, coconut, dates and rice, with flowers and betel leaves scattered on banana leaves. Brass oil lamps and a kalasha surround the scene.