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KAILASA SINGAPORE on 5/15/20222022-05-15Photo 99218872022-05-15 +1 copiesA bare-chested man in white dhoti sits cross-legged on a striped mat, pouring or offering from a small brass vessel over a tiered copper sri yantra or meru-style object on a yellow tray. He wears a rudraksha mala and red-and-white wrist threads. Beside him is a brass plate with a small oil lamp, bowls and offerings. To the right, a deity murti with a silver crown and jewelled ornaments wears a blue silk sari with silver border and white jasmine garlands with red roses. Behind, a second deity figure is draped in a green cloth. Flower petals and a metal pot appear nearby.2024-02-26SHYAMALAPEETA SARVAJNAPEETAM on 3/2/20222022-03-02November 28 2022 sripuram2022-11-28Devotional puja scene in a shrine room with pink and yellow walls. A seated young man with a shaved head, wearing a green short-sleeved shirt and white dhoti with a gold border, pours liquid from a small brass vessel over a golden sri yantra-style meru base on a tray. Behind him are a steel vessel, a bowl of water, and a tray of red, orange and pink flowers. Behind the altar, a deity murti dressed in red with a red and white garland and large crown-like headdress is seated on a throne, with a smaller standing murti in red garments beside it. Garlands hang on the yellow wall and brass lamps stand nearby.2020-10-16A bare-chested priest in a white dhoti with gold borders pours liquid from a copper vessel over a brass linga-style abhishekam stand decorated with pink and white flowers and green leaves. A rudraksha mala hangs from his neck and white ash marks his arms. Beside him a woman in a maroon shawl holds a copper pot, and a bucket of white liquid sits below the stand. Onlookers in saris and white kurtas stand behind on patterned rugs, and gilded deity figures with crowns are visible in the background.2019-03-04A priest seated cross-legged on a leopard-print mat performs naivedyam offering before a large ornate gold bowl on a gold pedestal stand, decorated with pink flowers and a small silver cup. He is bare-chested, wearing white dhoti with a green-bordered cloth and a rudraksha-style necklace, and holds his hand over the offering. In front, a silver thali holds rice, dal, vegetable curries and side dishes in small steel bowls, and a brass tray holds a lamp, a brass pot and a small cup. Behind, a shelf displays small framed deity images and a flat-screen television is mounted above, with white orchids on the right. No readable text is visible.2022-03-10Close photograph of a ritual abhishekam on a tiered silver-and-white sri chakra style meru or yantra-like object. A person in rust-orange cloth and layered rudraksha malas over a leopard-print garment pours liquid from an engraved silver vessel, a white stream falling over the stepped structure. Only hands, forearm and torso are visible; no face shown. Small gold deity figure and a dark shivalinga-like object sit on the tray at lower left, gold silk draped nearby.2012-07-30A photograph of a shaved-headed priest, bare-chested and wearing a sacred thread and a rudraksha mala, pouring water from a golden kalasha over a dark black Shiva lingam on a yoni peetha. Behind the lingam stands a gilded arched prabhavali frame with a trident motif. A small golden yantra-shaped base below the lingam catches the flowing water, and the scene is an abhishekam offering in a temple sanctum with a reddish stone floor.2022-11-28KAILASA SAN JOSE, USA on 3/14/20222022-03-14KAILASA SINGAPORE on 10/7/20212021-10-07