Near Hampi is a place called Pampassar. Here the meeting of Ram and Hanuman
-chief caracter of the Ramayana - took place, centuries ago… "
This is the picture of a Saddhu, priest of the temple performing an
"Aarti", the waving of lights for the Lord.
Indian men from Andhra Pradesh doing a puja for deceased family members in the river Tungabhadra in Hampi.
Indian women waiting for their buses at the bus stand in Mysore
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A woman sitting in front of her house as another one is sorting out chillies drying outside.
An Indian from Hampi ploughing his field
Trying to communicate with an Indian woman sitting quietly in front of her house inside the fort in Gulbarga
A food shop in a little street of Bijapur. I liked the "Cow Brand" name.
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A colorful working scene in a street of Bijapur.
A hot day it was.
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A woman walking by the streets of Mysore with a huge bag of flowers over her head. She was going to a temple I think.
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In front of her house, preparing an Iron . Amazing to see those irons full of burning coal..
A woman working on the Archeological site in Hampi smiling at me.
Smoking Ganja inside the Hanuman temple in Hampi
Women on the market in Beautiful Badami
A woman, drying her chillies in front of her house in the lovely town of Badami
This man, with two others, was hanging a poster of a movie on the front of a theatre.
A woman giving water and food to a poor personn in Badami. I must add that before giving him water she had given him food, I was too late....What else to say?. Here it seems people give often and all the time.
A woman praying and listening to Sadhvis in an Ashram.
Women praying and making offerings in a Jain temple in Mysore
Those Ayappa pilgrims were admiring the landscape on top of the hill next to the Hanuman temple , near Hampi.
A cubist image of a woman in front of her house next to the sacred tank in Badami
Election time in Badami.
Sonia Gandhi on the back of a rickshaw..
The Chamundeeswari temple is located on a hill in the vicinity of Mysore and is accessed through a motorable road. Chamundeeswari the tutelary deity of the Mysore Maharajas has been held in reverence for centuries, and the Wodeyars
of Mysore have made extensive contributions to this shrine. Every week the god is taken out of the temple for a procession around the temple. Even Buddhists monks are seen there giving money to the gods.
A street in Badami, a beautiful town of Karnataka
A woman rolling beedis in her home in Mysore
After visiting the temple on Chamundeeswari temple in Mysore, I went to a nearby restaurant with Hanuman .. The Chamundeeswari temple is located on a hill in the vicinity of Mysore and is accessed through a motorable road.
Chamundeeswari the tutelary deity of the Mysore Maharajas has been held in reverence for centuries, and the Wodeyars of Mysore have made extensive contributions to this shrine.
Three of the Jain sadhvis (women sadhus) I travelled with, meditating in there room before having their lunch.
In front of them a tripod with symbols of their gods inside.
Subramaniam, a sadhu met while visiting Pampassar, around Hampi
A Sadhu preparing the shrine for the Puja in Pampassar, near Hampi.
The path leading up to Hanuman temple in Hampi. karnataka
Parvati was helping an ironsmith with the bellow for the fire.
Shot in hampi where they are renovating old temples..
Men performing a puja in the Tungabhadra River.
A sadhu preparing Nandi for the morning Puja in Pampassar, near Hampi
A puja for deceased family member
A puja near the river in Hampi.
A lot of people every morning there doing Pujas for dead realtives and
spreading the ashes afterward in the river.
Those men were coming to Hampi to do a ritual for a defunt family member.
Water is very important in all religions, especially in Hinduism.
A moslem couple just married came for a celebration alongside the Tungabhadra River.
At the same time an Hindu is taking his ritual bath.
On top of the hill, at the right of the couple, Hanuman temple.
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By the way.. i was invited for lunch by them.. and after I had shared their meal, I was invited another time..
Incredible India..
Padmanabha is a brahmin from a village in the Bellary district .
He came to Hampi to perform a ritual for a deceased family member.
A pilgrim drying up her laundry on top of a temple near the river in Hampi.
The same kid.. When she was done, she told him :"Say "namaste " ( hello) to the man".. He got up and
joined his hand in the Namaste sign people use in India... follow up of the previous one...
A mother pampering her son on the threshold of her house near the temple in Hampi.
He was really happy, as you can see. The next one is better... soon.
Welcoming me into their colorful house in Bidar
Some pilgrims drying up sarees near the ghats in Hampi
Resting near Hanuman. Hampi
Durgi is a sheperdess I met a few days in hampi.
Always coming back home in the evening.
Hampi is a pure jewel, a marvel.
Picking up flowers for the temple. Hampi.
Flower sellers under the protection of Ganesh, on the wall, in the Devaraja market in Mysore.
Swami Tanmmayanand Sarasvati is a young 24 years old man who graduated from the Doon School, then decided to become a sadhu and study yoga. I met him near Hampi, we had breakfast together one day , he had a session of Yoga near the river, then I saw him a week later in the cave where he will stay to study yoga near the Bali fortress.
