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July 08 20102010-07-08Four-panel photo collage of an outdoor homa ritual. The top panel shows about a dozen men in white and yellow-trimmed clothes seated in rows before smoking fire pits, with a tall ornate kalasha-style pillar and a white platform behind them and palm trees above. A lower-left panel shows a black Shiva lingam draped with a garland of yellow flowers and red beads, with a figure in orange robes seated before it. A lower-middle close-up shows a person in an orange shawl with closed eyes and a tilak on the forehead. A lower-right panel shows a person with long dark hair in orange robes sitting with palms pressed together in prayer beside white platform and marigold garlands. +1 copies2010 - Photo Album +1 copiesA seated man in an orange saffron shawl and multiple rudraksha malas meditates with eyes closed beside a white shrine plinth decorated with yellow and red flower garlands and scattered petals. A red bindi marks his forehead and his long swept-back hair falls past his shoulders. Behind him a dark stone statue stands on a stepped base amid palm foliage. To the left a second seated person in white clothes with a yellow shawl sits with hands folded in a meditative posture. a person seated in meditation at an outdoor shrine, with a yellow-shawled devotee nearby.2010-07-23July 08 20102010-07-08July 08 20102010-07-08A man in saffron-orange robes and a rudraksha mala sits cross-legged in meditation on a low platform at the centre of a ring of grey ash, with a brass kalasha-style vessel placed before him. Behind him stands a white stepped base holding a black stone Nandi-like bull figure garlanded with red and orange flowers, and a tall copper-coloured pillar draped in garlands rises among palm trees. Several people in white ritual clothes sit meditating on the ash circles around the open-air sacred site, with dark stone deity murti standing to the left, and a kolam or chalk-drawn pattern is visible on the ground at the front.2010-07-14July 08 20102010-07-08September 03 20102010-09-03August 15 20102010-08-15September 21 20102010-09-21September 17 20102010-09-17