PHOTO ESSAY 06 / KARNATAKA, INDIA

Rituals of Reverence: Gestures of Devotion

Flowers, joined hands and quiet gestures of devotion, observed within sacred spaces.

A worshipper ceremonially washes the feet of the Bahubali statue at Shravanabelagola
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Across these temple scenes, devotion appears through actions more than spectacle: flowers placed at stone feet, hands joined in prayer, and people moving through sacred space. The sequence observes how individual acts create a collective atmosphere, keeping the people, their gestures and the setting in equal view.

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