Hindu Ritual Activities

Vibrant scenes of Hindu worship and celebrations, featuring colorful offerings and traditional attire at sacred sites across India.

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India, Uttar Pradesh, Varanasi, A saddhu performs a puja for a bereaved family on the ghats.

Chatt is the holiest Hindu festival of people in Bihar and Jharkh and the state in India and extends to four days. During the thanksgiving celebrations of Chatt Puja, people gather on the banks of the River Ganges to bathe in its sacred water, pray and make ritual offerings to the Sun God. In Hinduism, sun worship is believed to help cure a variety of diseases, including leprosy, and helps ensure the longevity and prosperity of family members, friends, and elders. Chatt Puja is a highly elaborate festival noted for its impressive display of colorful costumes, music, singing and extravagant rituals. Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

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Hindu devotees offer prayers at a temple of Lord Shiva on the occasion of Maha Shivratri festival in Agartala. Agartala, Tripura.

Shastiapthapoorthi, 60th year celebration at Amritaghateswarar Abirami Temple in Thirukkadaiyur near Mayiladuthurai, Tamil Nadu, South India, India, Asia

Women pray the wooden carriage, Alopi Devi Temple, Uttar Pradesh, India, Asia India Copyright: xRajeshxVora/DinodiaxPhotox

Vendor selling flower garland, varanasi, uttar pradesh, india, asia Copyright: xHarixMahidhar/DinodiaxPhotox

Praying women with child, Swayambhunath temple, Kathmandu, Nepal, Asia

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Puja ceremony, Hindu Brahmin priests, Sri Vadapathira Kaliamman Hindu Temple, Singapore, Southeast Asia, Asia

Women dress as Hindu Goddess Durga, Thoothukudi, Tamil Nadu, India, Asia Copyright: xAkellaxSrinivas/DinodiaxPhotox

Hindu ceremony in the Golden Temple, Kathmandu, Nepal, Asia

Devotees taking food in temple Urchava mandap of Meenakshi Sundareswarar temple, Swamimalai, Tamil Nadu, India Copyright: xMxAmirtham/DinodiaxPhotox

Yagna initiation of Deity in Temple celebration Tamil Nadu India Copyright: xDinodiaxPhotox

Worshipping the tree at Sri Kalahasti temple, Andhra Pradesh Pilgrims come Kalahastishvara temple with their unmarried daughters in the hope that a special pooja at the temple will help them find good husband, Sri Kalahasti is also considered a Navagraha Sthala, dedicated to Rahu and Kethu

Woman devotees celebrating Rangpanchmi in Gangshyamji temple, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India Copyright: xShivjixJoshi/DinodiaxPhotox

A religious procession, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India Copyright: xShivjixJoshi/DinodiaxPhotox

Mandalay, a sprawling city of more than 1 million people, was founded in 1857 by King Mindon to coincide with an ancient Buddhist prophecy. It was believed that Gautama Buddha visited the sacred mount of Mandalay Hill with his disciple Ananda, and proclaimed that on the 2,400th anniversary of his death, a metropolis of Buddhist teaching would be founded at the foot of the hill.

Devotees of lord shiva gathered for celebrating mahashivaratri festival at Mandapeshwar caves, Borivali, Bombay now Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Copyright: xNitinxKelvalkar/DinodiaxPhotox

Special Prayer Being Offered By Jain Religious Community In India

Chatt is the holiest Hindu festival of people in Bihar and Jharkh and the state in India and extends to four days. During the thanksgiving celebrations of Chatt Puja, people gather on the banks of the River Ganges to bathe in its sacred water, pray and make ritual offerings to the Sun God. In Hinduism, sun worship is believed to help cure a variety of diseases, including leprosy, and helps ensure the longevity and prosperity of family members, friends, and elders. Chatt Puja is a highly elaborate festival noted for its impressive display of colorful costumes, music, singing and extravagant rituals. Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

Indonesia, Bali. Hindu priests bless worshipers and devotees with holy water during a temple festival ceremony in Indonesia, Bali, near Ubud. (Editorial Use Only)

Devotees singing devotional songs in ghanshyam temple Jodhpur Rajasthan India Asia Copyright: xSarveshxJoshi/DinodiaxPhotox

India, Varanasi, daily life

Priest pouring wet colour on devotees ghanshyam temple Jodhpur Rajasthan India Asia Copyright: xSarveshxJoshi/DinodiaxPhotox

Chatt is the holiest Hindu festival of people in Bihar and Jharkh and the state in India and extends to four days. During the thanksgiving celebrations of Chatt Puja, people gather on the banks of the River Ganges to bathe in its sacred water, pray and make ritual offerings to the Sun God. In Hinduism, sun worship is believed to help cure a variety of diseases, including leprosy, and helps ensure the longevity and prosperity of family members, friends, and elders. Chatt Puja is a highly elaborate festival noted for its impressive display of colorful costumes, music, singing and extravagant rituals. Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

People after religious bathing in the River Ganges India

Laxmi narayan tripathi holding goddess idol on head, madhya pradesh, india, asia Copyright: xArunxMishra/DinodiaxPhotox

Devotees receiving blessings from the Ganesha in the middle of the hill, Palani, Tamil Nadu, India Copyright: xMxAmirtham/DinodiaxPhotox

Warli tribal dance ; during Gudhi Padwa ; Hindu New Year day ; Chaitra Shuddha pratipada ; Thane ; Maharashtra ; India ; No MR

Pilgrim with spiritual piercings starting his walk, Hindu festival Thaipusam, Batu Caves limestone caves and temples, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Southeast Asia, Asia

Devotee carrying plate flowers statue Bhagwan Gomateshwara Bahubali Mahamasthakabhisheka Shravanabelagola Hassan Karnataka Copyright: xManoejxPaateel/DinodiaxPhotox

India, Rajasthan, Pushkar, women in temple

Asia,Malaysia; Penang; Thaipusam; Hindu; festival; people;

India, Uttar Pradesh, Varanasi. Arti is a Hindu ritual, part of a puja, in which light from a flame is ritually waved for the veneration of deities. People prepare small candles to float out on the river.

Holy Fire, Thaipusam festival in Tenkasi, Tamil Nadu, Tamilnadu, South India, India, Asia

Nepal, Kathmandu, Swayambhunath temple

Nepal: Hindu priest and assistant at the reclining Vishnu statue in the Hindu Budhanilkantha Temple, Budhanilkantha, Kathmandu Valley (2008)

Thread ceremony yajnopavita in itadi near Modasa Sabarkantha Gujarat India NO MR Copyright: xAnilxDave/DinodiaxPhotox

Sonargaon, Bangladesh - 15 November 2022: View of devotees in a temple, bathed in the warm glow of countless oil lamps, their faces reflecting devotion amidst the smoky air.

Grand Bassin-sacred Hindu site, Maha Shivaratri temple, Mauritius, Africa

Lighting oil lamp in Swaminatha Swami temple, Swamimalai, Tamil Nadu, India Copyright: xMxAmirtham/DinodiaxPhotox

Asia, Thailand, Mae Hong Son, People bowing to Buddha image. (Editorial Usage Only)

Anzuenden von Oellampen im Kapaleeshvara-Tempel in Chennai, Madras, Tamil Nadu

Nepal, Kathmandu, Swayambhunath

Massage at Babu Ghat Kolkata West Bengal India Copyright: xDinodiaxPhotox

Pilgrims at the 22-stations-shower-circle around the Ramanathaswamy Temple, a ceremony for washing away little sins, Rameshwaram, Tamil Nadu, India, Asia

Snaya Yatra festival celebration at ISKCON, Sarcelles, Val d'Oise, France, Europe

King of Mysore joining in Dussera dusera festival celebration in Mysore, Karnataka, India NO MR Copyright: xTxSatyan/DinodiaxPhotox

Yamuna ji temple, vishram ghat, mathura, uttar pradesh, india, asia Copyright: xArunxMishra/DinodiaxPhotox

Girls dress as Goddess Durga as they participate in Kumari Puja rituals, during Navratri Festival at Kamakhya temple, in Guwahati, Assam, India on 22 October 2023. Kumari Puja an essential part of Durga puja, during which teenage girl is worshipped symbolically as a Goddess Durga.

Baul singer Shantiniketan West Bengal India Copyright: xDebasishxBanerjee/DinodiaxPhotox

People playing with gulal on holi festival at ghanshyam ji temple Jodhpur Rajasthan India Copyright: xShivjixJoshi/DinodiaxPhotox

Women in traditional clothing; India

Keralites in traditional dress praying on Kerala New Year day called Vishu at Aastika Samaj Temple Kerala India Copyright: xAkellaxSrinivas/DinodiaxPhotox

Man performing pooja, dashashwamedh ghat, varanasi, uttar pradesh, india, asia Copyright: xHarixMahidhar/DinodiaxPhotox

Indonesia, Bali, Ubud. Hindu prayers (Editorial Usage Only)

Pilgrims praying, Vaikasi, Visakam festival, Tiruchendur, Tamil Nadu, India Copyright: xMxAmirtham/DinodiaxPhotox

Man at a stall offering small bowls with flowers and ritual offerings to a passing woman, the sacrificial bowls are offered in honour of the Mother Goddess Ganga on the banks of the Ganges River , Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India, Asia

Chariot Festival Participants, London, United Kingdom

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Trained dancers get their body painted in the colours of a tiger prepare to participate famous Pulikali Thrissur Kerala India Copyright: xSolaris/DinodiaxPhotox

Devotees in trance dances in duryodhana padukalam festival Sevilimedu Kanchipuram Tamil Nadu India MR 777A Copyright: xMxAmirtham/DinodiaxPhotox

Kanyadan custom in a Bengali marriage ceremony, India Copyright: xBxPxMaiti/DinodiaxPhotox

Lord Muruga with his peacock vahanam at the foot of the hill, Tamil Nadu, India Copyright: xMxAmirtham/DinodiaxPhotox

Ganges River, Varanasi, formerly Benares, Uttar Pradesh, India

Children of Indian ethnicity with Shiva figure at a Hindu Festival in Georgetown, Guyana, South America

Man piercing spike through cheeks discharging vow in Thaipusam festival Kerala India NOMR Copyright: xSatishxParashar/DinodiaxPhotox

yellamma devdasi fair, saudatti, karnataka, india Copyright: xDinodiaxPhotox

Narayanganj, Bangladesh - 15 November 2025: View of devotees in prayer, their faces illuminated by the warm glow of candles amidst the soft haze of incense smoke.

Nepal, Kathmandu, Tihar Festival, people, ceremony,

Snake charming, jaipur rajasthan india

Woman dress as Hindu Goddess Kali, Tamil Nadu, India, Asia Copyright: xAkellaxSrinivas/DinodiaxPhotox

Shiv Temple By Sameep Padora & Associates, Maharashtra, India-Temples' Holy Man, Wadeshwar, , Architect Unknown

Shivaratri celebration at the Ganesh temple, Paris, France. Scarves offered to dancers

India, Tamil Nadu, General, Pongal Festival. Four day festival to mark the end of harvest. Pongal is a mixture or rice sugar dahl and milk symbolic of prosperity and abundance.

The Karthigai Deepam festival in Arunachaleshwara temple dedicated to lord Shiva Chola Thiruvannamalai Copyright: xMxAmirtham/DinodiaxPhotox

Celebration in the Paris Ganesh temple, Paris, France, Europe

Holi Celebration In Dauji Temple Dauji. India.

Three bengali Married women doing prepartion for Durga Puja

Women celebrating Pongal festival in Tamil Nadu India Copyright: xMxAmirtham/DinodiaxPhotox

Pilgrims waiting for free meals, Tiruchendur, Tamil Nadu, India Copyright: xMxAmirtham/DinodiaxPhotox

Singapore, , Women Dressed In Orange Queue At An Indian Temple

Kolam; Rangoli- In front of Kapaleeswarar temple during festival, Mylapore, Chennai;Madras, Tamil Nadu

Pilgrim with spiritual piercings smoking mind expanding substances, Hindu festival Thaipusam, Batu Caves limestone caves and temples, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Southeast Asia, Asia

Dance performance on Dheenga Gavar gangaur festival Jodhpur Rajasthan India NO MR Copyright: xShivjixJoshi/DinodiaxPhotox

Shiva sadhu blessing a pilgrim, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India, Asia

Praying men performing a ritual for the soul of a deceased person, at the ghats of Varanasi, India, Asia

Hindu devotees offer prayers at a temple of Lord Shiva on the occasion of Maha Shivratri festival in Agartala. Agartala, Tripura.

Widows dancing celebrating Holi festival, Gopinath temple, Uttar Pradesh, India, Asia India Copyright: xAkellaxSrinivas/DinodiaxPhotox -

Ceremony of tying the sun, Inti Watana.

Puja en el rio Ganges,Rishikesh,Uttar Pradesh,India.

Woman selling flower garlands, Kamakhya Temple, Guwahati, Assam, India, Asia

Children praying at the sight of the 2002 Bali Bombings.

Sathabhishekam 80th birth day, the chettiar tying the mangalasutra around his wife s neck and their exchanging garlands, Tamil Nadu, India Copyright: xMxAmirtham/DinodiaxPhotox

Shop with customers in the narrow streets of Old Delhi, Delhi, India, Asia

Cremation ceremony for a passed away Jain nun, Palitana, Gujarat, India, Asia

Canggu, Indonesia - 19 March 2023: View of Balinese people in white attire gathered at a beach ceremony, the soft sand contrasting with the bright garments and traditional offerings.

Man reading Adigranth Akaltakhat Golden temple Amritsar Punjab India Copyright: xDinodiaxPhotox

Bengali Women with Sindur Durga festival at Kolkata India Copyright: xShivjixJoshi/DinodiaxPhotox

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