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January 12 2015

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Photo of a ritual offering display at an outdoor yagna site. Rows of decorated coconuts topped with bunches of yellow flowers and green leaves sit in coloured pots on a long table draped in red, orange, purple, green and blue cloths. Bananas and yellow marigold garlands lie along the table edge. Behind, a raised platform has red and orange draped cloth and a purple cloth, with smoke rising. A few people are seated in the background, including a bare-chested man and a person in white dhoti at left, partly visible. No a person candidate is clearly visible.2015-01-12January 12 20152015-01-12January 12 20152015-01-12October 13 20132013-10-13April 14 20182018-04-14Photograph of a ritual offering arrangement on a red-cloth floor in a temple hall. In the foreground, several woven baskets with pink and maroon borders are filled with coconut halves, yellow and red marigold garlands, green leaves and bundles of grain stalks, set on a magenta cloth. Scattered rice, flower petals and small brass bowls lie nearby. Behind, several people in orange and saffron clothing, including a woman in an orange sari and a man with a purple headcloth and white garment, sit observing. A green canopy and a yellow umbrella appear in the background.2018-04-14Photograph of a ritual display on a white-draped table: several silver kalasha pots, each topped with a yellow-orange coconut and green mango leaves, are decorated with yellow and white marigold garlands and red flowers. A ring of purple gomphrena-style flowers encircles the arrangement, and rice grains with scattered petals cover the table. In the background, seated devotees in colourful saris and white clothes watch, and a person in white stands at right near a red-draped table.2011-12-13Photo 11728753 +1 copiesClose-up photo of two decorated kalasha pots for ritual worship. Each brass-rimmed pot is wrapped in woven multicoloured bamboo lattice in red, green, white and yellow, topped with a tuft of straw and a coconut-shell cap. Both are garlanded with yellow marigolds and red roses, with green mango leaves tucked in. Halved coconuts sit in the foreground and fresh leaves and flowers appear at the right edge. No people are visible.2018-04-14March 16 20202020-03-16 +2 copiesApril 14 20182018-04-14Outdoor ritual photograph at a fire pit with stacked firewood in the foreground. Behind it, a long row of brass kalasha pots draped with yellow marigold garlands sits on a green and pink cloth-covered platform. Four young men sit cross-legged on mats facing the pots: three are bare-chested in pink dhotis with sacred threads and bead necklaces, and one in dark clothes sits at the right edge. Two older men in the background sit behind a metal railing near a red and gold decorated area, with gold ornaments and a purple cloth nearby.2015-01-13