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Photograph of a ritual offering arranged on a stone floor. A person in a white dhoti-style garment with a gold border reaches toward a decorated rangoli-like floral design in purple outline, green, yellow and white. Offerings include coconut halves, whole green fruits, sliced banana, and loose white and red flowers scattered across the floor. A large vessel wrapped in red cloth and heavy garlands of white jasmine and pink flowers stands to the right, with an oil lamp and a brass lamp nearby. In the foreground, fire flames rise from a homa or lamp fire. No a person candidate is visible.

A puja scene at a ritual site. A priest in white dhoti with a yellow-orange border reaches with his right hand to a silver camphor lamp burning with a flame, held over an ornate altar. The altar is draped in a deity's garment or decorated figure covered with beaded gold embroidery and rows of white jasmine garlands and red and yellow marigold garlands. Below, silver bowls hold rose petals, bananas, grapes, coconut halves and a covered silver vessel, with small oil lamps lit beside them. The floor is covered with colourful striped woven mats in pink, blue, green and orange. Another person in white sits at the back, partly visible.

November 28 2015

2015-11-28 +1 copies

A seated priest with a bare upper torso and a yellow and green striped cloth wrapped around his waist faces away from the camera, arranging offerings on a colourful square yantra-style mandala drawn on a white cloth atop a low wooden platform. Yellow, orange, red, green and blue sections are scattered with pink and white flower petals, whole fruits including oranges, apples and bananas, a split coconut, and a small heap of white rice or flour on a banana leaf at his feet. A wristwatch is visible on his left wrist, and an oil lamp and brass pots sit nearby on the floor. The setting suggests a puja or homa preparation.

A seated man at right performs a homa beside a burning fire pit made of stacked wooden blocks. He is bare-chested, wearing a white dhoti and an orange-and-yellow shawl draped over his shoulders, with white tripundra markings on his forehead and arms. He sits with his palms together, gazing upward. In front of him a silver-rimmed altar tray holds yellow flowers, orange fruit, bananas, a red apple-like fruit and a red-and-yellow patterned cloth. Two oranges sit on the tray's edge, and marigold petals are scattered on a striped mat. Two white-clad figures stand in a doorway behind, one in a white dhoti with a yellow-bordered cloth, and a carved wooden doorframe frames the scene.

2016-02-27 +1 copies

Overhead photo of a puja on a red tiled floor. A figure in white dhoti and shirt, seen only from the knees down and by hand, pours liquid from a silver vessel over a deity murti seated on a golden peetha, with a flame burning above. Around the murti are flower garlands, green leaves and pink petals. Surrounding trays hold sliced coconuts, apples, bananas, oranges, sweets, rice, kumkum, a golden plate with a small kalasha, and a silver bowl. The scene shows abhishekam and offerings. No face is visible, so a person cannot be confirmed in this image.

November 14 2021

A ritual scene beside a stone platform where a fire burns in the foreground. A priest wearing a white dhoti with a gold-bordered edge stands at left, one hand extended over the platform. On the platform, a red-draped object is adorned with white jasmine and red and pink flower garlands, surrounded by scattered petals, whole green coconuts with one broken open, bananas, and small oranges on a silver tray. A brass oil lamp with a lit flame sits at right beside an ornate gold-framed altar, and a decorated kalasha-like vessel with red and white embellishments stands behind the offering. No people are seated or visible beyond the priest.

A temple-style puja at a shrine: a gilded arched backdrop frames an orange cloth, and a deity murti or ritual form is heavily decorated with red roses, yellow marigolds, white jasmine garlands and green leaves, with a rudraksha-bead garland draped across it. In the foreground a shirtless priest in white dhoti with yellow borders pours or offers from a small vessel near a brass lamp with a lit flame, beside bananas, coconut halves and brass pots. A second shirtless man in a white dhoti sits at the left edge, partly cropped.

A photograph of a ritual fire pit (homa kunda) in front of a painted temple structure with a multicoloured tiered base topped by a pair of golden lions. Lit flames and smoke rise from the sunken fire pit, which is decorated with scattered flower petals. Behind it, a yellow-and-white garland-draped kalasha offering stands on a green and yellow yantra/mandala drawn with marigold petals. A priest in white dhoti and orange-saffron shawl stands at left, holding a long golden ladle (sruva) over the fire. Ghee bowls, brass vessels, leaves and flower offerings surround the setup. Stone steps with red and white stripes lead up to the structure. A partially visible person in orange clothing appears at right in the background.

March 16 2017

A homa fire burns in a metal tray in front of a decorated altar during a temple ritual. The altar is draped in green fabric and holds a central deity murti in colourful dress flanked by decorated kalasha pots with green leaves and coconuts. Fruits, flower petals, bananas, a green coconut wrapped in white flowers and halved coconuts are arranged on banana leaves around the fire, with brass lamps and ritual vessels nearby. A partially visible hand at the right edge holds a ritual item. No full person is clearly visible.