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2006 - Kailasa India Sangha ActivitiesA small tiled room with a brick fire pit (homa) at the center, where a flame burns with flower petals and offerings scattered around it. A shaved-headed man in white clothes and a rudraksha mala sits cross-legged behind the fire, with a sacred ash mark. Around him, seated on the floor, are several young girls and a boy in white with a forehead mark, some with long braids, one in a blue top, one in a green sari, all facing the fire with hands folded or holding offerings. An elderly woman in a red sari sits in the background by a doorway. On the right, a wooden table holds a brass lamp, flowers and a kalasha-like vessel beneath a framed portrait of a seated guru and a large deity print on the wall, decorated with marigold garlands. Shelves on the wall hold framed pictures and a radio. The image is a photograph.Indoor puja in a small room with pale green walls. In the foreground a woman in white sits behind a low brick fire pit with lit oil lamps and burning offerings, while a line of women and girls in saris and braided hair sit on the floor with leaf plates and dishes. Framed photographs hang on the upper left wall, and a wall calendar and clock are visible. A woman in a red sari sits in the doorway at the back. A young child sits in the lower foreground. The fire pit and offerings suggest a homa-style ritual, but no clear a person candidate is identifiable by appearance.June 22 20142014-06-22June 22 20142014-06-22 +2 copiesA homa is performed indoors in a small room with a white wall and a wooden door. A framed photograph of a seated, garlanded man in orange robes is displayed on a white-draped altar behind the fire, which is built from stacked yellow-wrapped blocks decorated with pink flowers. Two women in white clothing kneel at the fire, one feeding it from a steel vessel while the other tends it. Seated devotees on the floor, including a man in a white shirt, a woman in a green-yellow saree with folded hands, and a young girl in teal, watch the ritual. Metal bowls hold rice, flowers and dried leaves, and brass oil lamps stand beside the altar.December 14 20122012-12-142006 - Kailasa India Sangha ActivitiesA house-interior puja scene on a marble floor. On the left, a priest in orange and red robes with a flower garland and red-orange shawl holds a silver ceremonial staff topped with a ornamental finial, beside a brass plate with offerings. Behind him stand several young ascetic-style attendants in orange saffron robes, rudraksha malas and tilak marks, and an attendant in white dhoti with gold waist cloth. Seated devotees in white shirts and white dhotis sit with hands folded in namaskar. A woman in a green sari with jasmine in her hair kneels before the plate, and a man in white kneels to the right. Calendars hang on the pale green wall and a wooden door and window frame the room.2014-06-22 +1 copiesSeptember 28-29 2006 - Kodikkan Ratha YatraA photograph of a homa fire ritual indoors on a tiled floor. A brick-lined fire pit blazes with wood and offerings, including bananas visible among the fuel. A man in white dhoti and shirt with a rudraksha mala sits cross-legged on the left, feeding the fire. A woman in a white sari sits at right holding a steel plate with a red cloth and a small dish, with more seated devotees in white and pink behind and small brass lamps and a plate in the foreground. No one in the scene is identifiable as a person from appearance.2006-10-20Indoor home scene in a living room with cream walls, a framed deity picture on the wall, a wall calendar, a small television on a stand, and a red door. A man in a saffron-orange dhoti and shawl stands centre, wearing a long garland of white and red flowers, smiling and gesturing with both hands toward a man prostrating on the floor in white clothes. Around them stand an older man in white dhoti and shirt at left, an older woman in a teal blouse and pink-and-white sari, a man in a plaid shirt behind, and several children in colourful dresses and skirts watching. A woman in a light blue sari stands at right edge. The orange-clad man has long swept-back hair, a visibly distinctive saffron robe and garland cues, so this is an appearance-based a person in person, though the visible cues are limited.2011-05-17