Where Was This Photo Taken? (2)

Actually, there is...

...but we'd never have got it without your giving this clue, and even then it took a long, long slog. It didn't help that we missed the original puzzle, and that "some time back" was nearly 1500 posts ago! (And even then we'd not have got it if distaff hadn't known the secret search word to cull through your gazillion posts.)

And by the way, what's with the Chinese?

In that case can we get the answer so that the thread can move forward? I also would be interested to see the other photo from the net.

I did not get your last question regarding the Chinese?

For others Pomeranian and German Collie achieved a state of intense concentration

@aarosh will you yourself give us the answer.
Because the SHOW MUST GO ON!!!
A kind of Stagnancy has come in the thread.

I will wait for hfot2. They know the answer and they will post it. If they do not post in the next 2 hours, I will give the answer.

Sri Sai Narayan Badba, Panvel

ashram

statue

Well done hfot2. Puzzle solved.

In your photo, the plaque directly below Hanuman appears to start with a Chinese inscription. It set us off looking at Chinatown in Tangra, Kolkata, wondering why Chinese-Indians, who we thought would still be Buddhists, should be presenting a plaque at a Vaishnavite temple.

So now what's with the canine reference?

Good puzzle, if maddening. We didn't blurt out the answer right away, because we figured other puzzlers should get to enjoy suffering as much as we did.

Thanks.

One question, though: what is Hanuman holding? We are profoundly ignorant of Hindu iconography, but we're pretty sure those aren't kathi rolls.

The words written in the plaque are in Hindi. It says, Shri Ram Jai Ram Jai Jai Ram.

Canine reference is in the link that you provided. Here

The instrument he is holding is Kartal

Where ?

Thanks. Blown up to the max and pixelated, the top line looked to us exactly like two Chinese characters. Shows how much we know!

Again, thanks. We'd have fretted about that had you not made it clear.

Now we've really learned something – a sort of Hindu version of castanets (and probably far older than castanets, quite possibly even making their way with Gypsies into Andalusia and becoming castanets once there). Fascinating. Makes all the agony worthwhile.

Srinivasa Perumal Temple, Srivilliputhur?

No.
Sorry for the late reply. I was on travel.

Welcome back, kimbalaji!

Is it in TN?

Is it a temple?

Is it Marudhamalai Temple, Tamil Nadu?

Or maybe Arulmigu Kulanthai Velayuthaswamy Thirukoil - Kurunthamalai?