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A woman in a lavender-purple sari with a silver-edged border stands with her back to the camera, facing a massive old banyan tree with thick, twisting aerial roots and dense green foliage. Her long dark hair falls down her back and her hands are raised together near her chest in a prayer gesture. Small yellow offerings are visible at the base of the trunk. Sunlight filters through the leaves. A faint purple logo appears in the upper left corner.

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A photograph of a large banyan tree with many hanging aerial roots and thick spreading branches, growing over a small stone enclosure. A woman with long dark hair, seen from behind, wears a lavender-purple sari with a bare back and stands at the edge of a dark stone platform, facing the tree. Yellow flower garlands hang on the trunk, and a small blue sign reads DO NOT ENTER THE CAVE. Concrete steps and low walls surround the tree in an open courtyard.2010-12-28A photograph of a large banyan tree with many thick aerial roots and hanging prop roots forming a dense tangle around a small shrine-like niche at its base. In the foreground, a person seen from behind with long dark hair tied up, wearing an orange-brown garment with yellow borders and orange armbands, stands facing the tree on reddish earth. A black cable runs across the ground near a low stone wall. The scene appears to be an outdoor sacred grove setting.2012-04-23 +2 copiesJune 06 20142014-06-06A man in a lavender-purple dhoti-style garment with a draped purple shawl and a beaded necklace stands beside a large banyan tree with thick aerial roots and a trunk wrapped in marigold garlands. He raises one hand toward the tree while facing it, in an outdoor temple grounds setting with green foliage and a low stone platform.2010-12-28December 31 20082008-12-31August 07 20102010-08-07A large banyan tree dominates the scene, its thick grey aerial roots hanging and merging into multiple trunks across the frame. Its wide canopy of green leaves spreads overhead. A strand of white and silver beaded garland is strung between the roots at the base of the trunk, with red earth and small paved edges visible beneath. No people are present.2010-07-27August 07 20102010-08-07A photograph of a large, ancient banyan tree with a broad canopy of green leaves and many spreading grey branches. Numerous aerial roots hang down and thicken into pillar-like supports around the trunk, and the ground beneath is bare red earth with a concrete step or pathway at lower left. No people are visible.2011-08-01A photograph of a single man lying prone in a full-length prostration on the ground beside a large banyan tree. He wears a white dhoti with purple-edged borders and a white shirt, and has long dark hair tied back. His arms are extended forward on the reddish-brown earth, pressed against a bed of thick, exposed aerial roots and buttress roots that spread across the ground beneath the tree canopy. A concrete wall edge runs along the left side of the frame.2010-09-22December 31 20082008-12-31February 24 20072007-02-24