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  • Beautifully franmed vinatge print of Lord Murugan. .Shrine in the Kali Amman Kovil by the main road leading to Haputale..Wiharagala Estate.
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  • Beautifully framed vinatge print of Lord Murugan. Shrine in the Kali Amman Kovil by the main road leading to Haputale. Wiharagala Estate.
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  • Shrine in the Kali Amman Kovil by the main road leading to Haputale..Wiharagala Estate.
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  • Sri Lanka. Shrine to Lord Murugan in the Kali Amman Kovil by the main road leading to Haputale..Wiharagala Estate.
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  • Hanuman the Monkey God. Altar in priest house at Eastdale Division, Hindu temple. Nanu Oya.<br />
(A3 12/2021)
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  • Altar in priest house at Eastdale Division, Hindu temple. Nanu Oya.
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  • Lord Murugan on the wall. Interior of small Hindu Kovil or temple on Eastdale Division. Nanu Oya town.<br />
near Nuwara Eliya.
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  • Interior of small Hindu Kovil or temple on Eastdale Division. Nanu Oya town.<br />
near Nuwara Eliya.
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  • Interior of small Hindu Kovil or temple on Eastdale Division. Nanu Oya town.<br />
near Nuwara Eliya.
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  • Interior of small Hindu Kovil or temple on Eastdale Division. Nanu Oya town.<br />
near Nuwara Eliya.
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  • Interior of small Hindu Kovil or temple on Eastdale Division. Nanu Oya town.<br />
near Nuwara Eliya.
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  • Interior of small Hindu Kovil or temple on Eastdale Division. Nanu Oya town.<br />
near Nuwara Eliya.
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  • Interior of small Hindu Kovil or temple on Eastdale Division. Nanu Oya town.<br />
near Nuwara Eliya.
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  • Interior of small Hindu Kovil or temple on Eastdale Division. Nanu Oya town.<br />
near Nuwara Eliya.
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  • Interior of priests house. Eastdale division, Nanu Oya.
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  • Sri Lanka..Young temple hands collect offerrings off a tree at Swami Rock. In Fort Frederick, this point is also called Lovers Leap. Site of a Hindu Kovil (temple) that overlooks Trincomalee Harbour.
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  • Mamangeshwarar Temple festival.
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  • 'Vel' or spear at Hindu shrine.<br />
 Dambetenna Estate, Dambetenna.
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  • 'Vel' or spear at Hindu shrine. Dambetenne Estate. My son Sebastian in front.<br />
Dambetenna Estate, Dambetenna,
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  • Deity at a small shrine near Haputale.
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  • Horse and rider. Hindu shrine. Dambetenne. The name might be Maduraiveeran.<br />
Dambetenna Estate, Dambetenna.
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  • Vel spears at Dambetenne.
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  • Shrine above Dambetenna estate, overlooking the valley. The periphery of the shrine is made with 'vel' spears. The deity's name is Marudaiveeran or Maduraiveeran.
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  • 'Vel' or spear at Hindu shrine. Dambetenne Estate. Maduraiveeran,<br />
Dambetenna Estate, Dambetenna.
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  • Hindu shrine at Dambetenne tea estate.<br />
Horse and rider. Hindu shrine. Dambetenna Estate, Dambetenna.
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  • Sri Lanka. Horseman. Shrine in mist. Above Dambatenne Estate. The name might be Maduraiveeran.
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  • Detail of statue at Hindu shrine. Dambetenna Estate, Dambetenna.
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  • Hindu Shrine at Dambetenne. Hill country.<br />
Dambetenna Estate, Dambetenna.
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  • Detail of altar at Hindu shrine.<br />
Dambetenna Estate, Dambetenna.
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  • Hindu shrine. Dambetenne.<br />
Hill country. Dambetenna Estate, Dambetenna.
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  • Detail at Hindu shrine above Dambetenne Estate. 2007
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  • Trident, Shoe Flower and Lime at shrine complex.
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  • Deity in stone at Hindu Devale near Haputale town. 2009
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  • Statue at Devale near Haputale.
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  • Small statue of unidentified deity at devale near Ella.
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  • Shrine near Haputale.
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  • Small Naga shrine. Thirukovil.
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  • A small roadside small shrine on road leading to main Kovil in Tirukovil town. East Coast. 2010
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  • Wall shrine in small Hindu kovil (temple) in the village of Tirukovil..East Coast.
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  • Wall shrine in small Hindu kovil (temple) in the village of Tirukovil..East Coast.
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  • Painted Hindu shrine wall at Sangamankanda. East Coast.
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  • Painted Hindu shrine wall at Sangamankanda. East Coast.
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  • Painted Hindu shrine wall at Sangamankanda. East Coast.
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  • Painted Hindu shrine wall at Sangamankanda. East Coast.
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  • Sri Lanka. Wall of small roadside shrine. Sangamankanda. East Coast.
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  • Wall shrine in small Hindu kovil (temple) in the village of Tirukovil..East Coast.
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  • Sri Lanka. Parvati. Wall of small roadside shrine. Sangamankanda. East Coast.
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  • Painted Hindu shrine wall at Sangamankanda. East Coast.
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  • Shiva is 'shakti' or power, Shiva is the destroyer, the most powerful god of the Hindu pantheon and one of the godheads in the Hindu Trinity. Known by many names - Mahadeva, Mahayogi, Pashupati, Nataraja, Bhairava, Vishwanath, Bhava, Bhole Nath - Lord Shiva is perhaps the most complex of Hindu deities. Hindus recognize this by putting his shrine in the temple separate from those of other deities.
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  • Sri Lanka. Wall of small roadside shrine. Sangamankanda. East Coast.
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  • Painted Hindu shrine wall at Sangamankanda. East Coast.
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  • Painted screen at small Hindu Kvil/shrine at Thirukovil. East Coast.
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  • God Kataragama or Lord Murugan.<br />
Painted devale screen at Hindu shrine, Sangamankanda on the East Coast.
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  • Lord Murgan, aka God Kataragama with his vehicle, a peacock. at Sangamankanda.
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  • Lord Murgan, aka God Kataragama with his vehicle, a peacock. at Sangamankanda.
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  • Paintings on wall of Hindu shrine at Sangamankanda on the East Coast of the island.<br />
(A2 - 12/2021)
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  • Paintings on wall of Hindu shrine at Sangamankanda on the East Coast of the island.
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  • Paintings on wall of Hindu shrine at Sangamankanda on the East Coast of the island.
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  • Sri Lanka. Wall of small roadside shrine. Sangamankanda. East Coast.
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  • Sri Lanka. Wall of small roadside shrine. Sangamankanda. East Coast.
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  • Sri Lanka. Shrine along the route of the procession around the temple compound during the annual festival.<br />
1992
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  • The priest from the Kataragama shrine walk down to the river. The Water cutting ceremony in the Menik Ganga, (River of Gems) marks the culmination of the annual festival that in the month of July or August.
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  • Thai Pongal Hindu festival on a tea estate. Man dressed as Lord Murugan applies holy ask to forehead.
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  • Saman Devale shrine on road to Castlereagh.
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  • Saman Devale.
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  • Nandi painted on wall of Coast Road on the East Coast. South of Kalmunai.
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  • 'Vel' or spear at Hindu shrine and altar. Dambetenne Estate.
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  • Painted rock surface at Hindu shrine. Dambetenna Estate, Dambetenna.
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  • Sri Lanka. Hindu shrine at Dambetenne tea estate. 2004
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  • Murugan, Vel and Peacock.<br />
Brass plaque at Kataragama. c 1993
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  • Hanuman shrine
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  • Hindu shrine to Naga Deva near Tirukovil. East Coast.<br />
Hindu shrine near beach south of Tirukovil on East Coast. 2011<br />
(A3 12/2021)
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  • Sri Lanka. The Water cutting ceremony in the Menik Ganga, (River of Gems) marks the culmination of the annual festival that in the month of July or August.
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  • Hindu roadside shrine at Loolacendara.<br />
Roadside shrine on way to Jame's Taylor tea estate. 2006
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  • SRI LANKA. Roadside shrine on way to Jame's Taylor tea estate. Painted granite rock. 2006
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  • Tree Shrine to Amman/Devi at Hindu Kovil near Haputale.<br />
Statue with umbrella, near Haputale.<br />
(A3 12/2021)
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  • Hindu shrine.
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  • Trident on wall of small Hindu Kovil in village near Tirukovil
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  • 'Om' symbol on wall of small kovil in Thirukovil
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  • Trident, Shoe Flower and Lime at shrine complex. 2009
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  • Mamangeshwarar Temple festival.
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  • Mamangeshwarar Temple festival.
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  • Mamangeshwarar Temple festival.
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  • The Hindu Vel Cart festival in Colombo. The cart travels down the main road in Colombo, the Galle Road, between two temples.
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  • Painted Hindu shrine wall at Sangamankanda. East Coast.
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  • Wall shrine in small Hindu kovil (temple) in the village of Tirukovil..East Coast.
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  • Painted Hindu shrine wall at Sangamankanda. East Coast.
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  • Stone altar at Hindu shrine. Tirukovil.<br />
Sri Lanka.  2010 Stone slab for offerings of flowers. Hindu Kovil (temple) at Tirukovil.<br />
<br />
(A3 - 12.2021)
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  • Priest at Eastdale Division, Hindu temple. Nanu Oya.
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  • Boys collect the offerings left the day before from the tree that overlooks the ocean.<br />
Tirukoneswaram Temple.
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  • Kali shrine near Kumbalwela. On Kumbalwela - Ella Road.
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  • Head of deity at a small shrine near Haputale.
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  • Small Hindu shrine at Dambetenne. 2009<br />
Dambetenna Estate, Dambetenna. not for sale for web use till November 2017 as given to Dumbara Hotels Pvt Ltd.
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  • Simple shrine. East Coast. North of Batticaloa.
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  • Main entrance to the Kataragama Devale at dusk.
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  • Uruththrun, a form of Siva..Sangamankandy shrine on the East Coast..April 2002..
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  • Sri Lanka. At the top of Swami Rock, Fort Fredrick, Trincomalee. A temple assitant collects offerings that would have been tied to the tree on the day before. Tirukonesvaram Kovil. Hindu temple. October 2003
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  • Sri Lanka. Nandi painted on wall of Coast Road on the East Coast. South of Kalmunai.
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  • Sri Lanka. Main entrance to the Katargama Devale at dusk.
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  • Sri Lanka. Lighting on temporary Gopuram. Mamangeshwarar Temple festival. Batticaloa
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