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July 29 20122012-07-29A homa fire ritual in progress inside a room with a brick-lined fire pit blazing with flames. A shaved-headed priest in saffron-orange robes with a red-orange shawl, wearing a gold-bead necklace and a mala, sits cross-legged and feeds sticks into the fire from a silver bowl. Steel plates hold offerings beside him, pink flowers decorate the pit's edges, and a white jasmine garland hangs at the right. Seated devotees in chairs with pink bags are visible in the background, and a microphone stands by the priest.2012-09-05July 29 20122012-07-29July 29 20122012-07-29A man in a red-orange turban and matching saffron-red dhoti sits cross-legged on a stone floor reading from an open book, with white ash horizontal marks on his arm and a rudraksha mala around his neck. In front of him a square fire pit of yellow-painted bricks burns with a small flame, with a silver spouted vessel, a bowl and a silver ladle nearby. Behind the fire, garlanded kalasha pots decorated with white and red flower garlands and green cloth sit on an orange cloth-covered platform before a stone wall carved with a sun-face motif. A partly visible woman in white stands at the top left.2014-03-24November 29 20112011-11-29December 28 20112011-12-28A homa ritual at night in an open ashram space. A bald priest in orange robes with a gold necklace and tilak sits cross-legged, pouring a ladle of liquid into a fire built on a stacked pyramid of orange-painted bricks decorated with red flower petals. He holds an open book in one hand. Behind him, a second orange-robed man sits with a rudraksha mala, and a woman in a red and maroon blouse and skirt sits with folded hands. A microphone stand, brass vessels, a bell and a small kalasha lie nearby, with a flower-decorated pot at the lower left.2012-07-29July 29 20122012-07-29November 29 20112011-11-29July 05 20012001-07-05December 28 20112011-12-28