Title: S-AFRICA-HINDU-KAVADY-FESTIVAL
Image Number: APN116136
Media Id: 99_625
Path:
african.pictures /
Independent Photographers /
Rajesh Jantilal
Description: DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA: A Hindu devotee prepares to participate with other devotees who pulled their respective chariots decked with flowers, milk, lime, fruits, hooks, hindu deities, camphor, lamp and spikes sewed to his body during the annual Hindu Thaipusam Kavady festival on 4 February 2007 at the Chatsworth Magazine Barracks Shree Vishnu Hindu temple in Chatsworth township some 40 kilometres north of Durban.The festival is a purification ritual offering prayers, penance, observing a strict month long vegetarian diet and in honour of Hindu God , Muruga. PHOTO:www.rajeshjantilal.com
Collections: Independent Photographers
Subcollections:
Rajesh Jantilal
Country: SOUTH AFRICA
Orientation: panoramic
Pixel Size: 4800 x 2809
Credit: Rajesh Jantilal / Independent Photographers / african.pictures
Keywords:
colour image ,
South Africa,
horizontal,
Durban,
religious groups,
festival,
KwaZulu-Natal,
chatsworth,
Indians,
Africa,
,
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Property Release: No