| English | English Two brothers, priests of the temple, assisted by the younger brother's son, carrying aout their morning acitivities. The elder brother, seated on a wooden bedsted on the veranda of the temple, is praying his daily mantras. In each hand he holds a chaplet, the right hand hidden in a prayer-bag. The younger brother is seated near the temple entrance on the veranda, painting on hand-made paper a Durga-yantra for sale. His activity represents a modern phenomenon: the secularization of traditional ritual diagrams for commercial purposes, occuring since the beginning of the seventues because of a worldwide market for tantric art. In front of the temple, at the ancestral graves, the younger brother's son is performing, with flowers and water, the daily rite for the ancestors. At the end of the ceremony he walks round the graves from the right to the left, then he returns to the temple. |
