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Outdoor scene at an ashram courtyard with several men seated cross-legged on bare earth in white kurta-style clothing and yellow shawls, arranged around small circular fire pits with ash rings. One pit has a small flame and smoke rising. Behind them stand white stepped stone structures and a dark stone pillar with a basin, with palm trees and greenery in the background. Sunlight is low.

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July 20 20102010-07-20Outdoor photograph of a group of about eight people seated cross-legged in white clothing with yellow shawls on a sandy courtyard, each sitting beside a ring of grey ash or fire-pit residue. Several have eyes closed in meditation. Behind them stand white rectangular platforms, a dark ornate deity murti or statue with a metal canopy, a black Shiva lingam draped with a garland at left, and palm trees. A thin line of smoke rises near the centre. A man in front wears glasses and a yellow shawl over white clothes with a rudraksha mala. No person in the scene is identifiable as a person by the visible cues listed here, so the a person value is none.2010-07-03 +1 copiesJuly 20 20102010-07-20July 19 20102010-07-19Outdoor scene at an ashram-style site with palm trees and smoke rising in the background. Six men in white dhotis and white shirts with yellow shawls sit cross-legged on mats in a row, each within a circular ash-filled fire pit on bare reddish earth, eyes closed in meditation. The man in the foreground wears a yellow shawl and holds his hands together in his lap. Behind them stand white platforms and a tall copper-coloured kalasha-like finial, with a dark stone statue of a standing deity figure holding a staff on the left. Appears to be a homa or meditation practice performed by practitioners.2010-08-08Outdoors on bare sandy ground, several people sit cross-legged in a ring of glowing embers and ash arranged around a fire pit. The central man wears white clothes and a yellow shawl, eyes closed, hands resting on his knees in meditation. Beside him, another man in white with a yellow shawl sits with hands folded. Behind them, a woman in an orange-red top and a woman in cream clothes sit, and at right a bald man in white with a rudraksha mala sits on a mat. Behind them stand white stepped structures, a flowering arrangement, a dark stone block and tall palm trees.2010-07-27Outdoor ashram scene of a Pancha-tapas practice: about a dozen men in white dhotis and white shirts with yellow shawls sit cross-legged inside circular rings of ash and charred embers on a dirt ground. Smoke rises from fires behind them among tall coconut palms, with a small white-walled building with a green roof and a few figures standing in the background. The men appear to be in meditation.2010-07-07July 07 20102010-07-07Outdoor photograph of a group of men seated cross-legged in a row on bare sandy ground, each within a circular patch of grey ash and charred embers from a fire ritual. They wear white dhotis and white kurtas with yellow shawls draped over their shoulders, and several have rudraksha malas. Some sit with hands folded in prayer or resting in lap, eyes closed in meditation. Smoke drifts through the scene, with palm trees and green foliage behind, a stone fire-pit or stone vessel at left, and a bamboo fence at right. There are eight seated people visible, with several partially obscured at the back.2010-07-07Outdoor photograph of several men in white dhoti-style clothing with yellow shawls and rudraksha malas seated cross-legged on sandy ground in open circular fire-pit areas with grey ash. Smoke rises in the background among coconut palms, a wooden fence, a concrete wall and flowering plants. The foreground man sits with hands folded in prayer and eyes closed, while others sit with eyes closed or hands in lap and one stands at the rear.2010-07-08July 20 20102010-07-20July 20 20102010-07-20