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February 14 20222022-02-14February 17 20222022-02-17A photograph of a large whitewashed gopuram, the tiered entrance tower of a South Indian temple, rising behind a crowd. The tower is covered in carved sculptural figures and niches, with a small shrine and deity murti at its base. Below, a dense crowd of people moves forward, many holding up colourful umbrellas and ceremonial banners with fringed edges. Shop awnings with Tamil signboards line the left side, and a rocky green hill rises at the right. A timestamp in the corner reads 24 9:11.2006-09-24Photograph taken from ground level looking up at a tall, whitewashed gopuram (temple gateway tower) with ornate sculpted tiers, rising above a smaller colourful entrance mandapa and a dark doorway. A dense crowd of devotees fills the courtyard in front of the entrance; women wear saris in red, blue and light colours, and men wear white shirts. A tall lamp post and trees frame the scene under a grey evening sky. Painted sculptures decorate the adjacent brightly coloured tower on the left.2022-02-14A dense crowd of devotees fills the foreground of a procession near a massive white gopuram of a South Indian temple, its tiers covered in carved sculptures and small niches. Several large ornate umbrellas with red, maroon and gold embroidered canopies and fringed borders are held aloft on poles, and a long red and blue embroidered cloth banner stretches across the top of the frame. Many men in white dhotis and shirts, some with orange shawls, press together below. A green hill rises behind the temple tower under a pale sky, and a building with a shop sign stands at the left edge. A small purple-and-white logo appears in the upper right corner.2006-09-24February 06 20172017-02-06 +1 copiesA crowded outdoor photo at a South Indian temple complex. A tall whitewashed gopuram tower with carved sculpted tiers rises in the background above green trees and a rocky hill. In the foreground, many devotees in white dhotis, white shirts and saris walk across a stone-paved courtyard toward a small pillared shelter with a carved roof. On the right, a long wall of ornately carved granite pillars with sculpted figures runs the length of the frame. A wheeled wooden cart and a yellow barrier stand nearby. A camera-timestamp overlay reads 24 and 9:06 in red digits. No single figure is identifiable as a person from the visible cues.2006-09-24February 06 20172017-02-06 +4 copies1978 - Arulmigu Arunachaleshwara TempleA dense crowd of devotees fills a stone-paved temple street leading toward a large whitewashed gopuram tower set against a green forested hill under an overcast sky. Many people wear white dhotis and shirts, while others wear checked shirts, saris and a few orange garments. A stone bull statue sits along the right colonnade, and an orange-clad figure with a garland stands near the centre of the throng. Carved pillars and ornamented temple walls frame the procession route.2006-09-24Photograph of a large crowd walking through a stone-paved temple courtyard beside a granite temple wall carved with figures. Many people, mostly men in white dhotis and shirts, with women in saris, move toward a stone open pavilion with a bull statue on its roof. A tall white gopuram rises in the background above green trees and rocky hills. A yellow metal barrier stands at right, and a parked wheeled cart with colourful frame sits at left. No one is identifiable as a person in this view.2006-09-24Photo 11710633