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February 27 20162016-02-27February 27 20162016-02-27A photograph of a shirtless man seated on the ground in a ritual setting, wearing a white dhoti with a yellow shawl draped over his shoulder and a rudraksha mala around his neck. His chest is marked with white sandalwood or ash lines and a white forehead mark. He arranges white jasmine garlands on leaf-wrapped coconut-topped pots, with a brass plate of yellow flowers and rice beside him. Another seated man in white stands to the left, and a carved wooden door with brass studs is behind. Two people are visible; no identity can be confirmed from appearance.2017-04-03February 08 20122012-02-08A homa fire burns inside a brick fire pit bordered with marigolds and yellow flowers, set against a red wall in an outdoor courtyard. A shirtless priest with sandalwood markings on his arms and chest, wearing a red-and-pink head cloth, gold necklaces and a white dhoti, sits cross-legged and holds a ladle over the flames. Opposite him, another shirtless priest in a white dhoti with a colourful sash sits on a mat beside a silver tray of fruit, flowers and offerings. Three men in white shirts and white dhotis stand behind, one with palms joined in prayer, and a boy in white stands nearby. No one in this scene is identifiable as a person; the figures are priests and devotees.2016-02-27Several men sit cross-legged on a white marble floor performing a ritual with brass plates. Most are bare-chested, wearing white dhotis with gold borders, and have white sacred ash marks on their foreheads and bodies. The man in front wears rudraksha malas and has a white tilak and tends small brass bowls holding flower petals, pink flowers and leaves on a mesh cloth. Beside him an older man with white hair sits on a red and orange cloth with pink flowers and offerings. Other men with orange or rudraksha necklaces sit nearby, and a seated woman in a yellow sari cradles a small child in the background. Steel serving counters and framed deity images stand behind them.2017-07-25A photograph of a bare-chested man seated on the ground performing a ritual. He wears a white dhoti, a yellow shawl over his left shoulder, a multi-strand beaded rudraksha-style mala, and white horizontal tilak marks on his forehead and arms. He arranges sprigs of green leaves and white jasmine-type flowers around brass pots wrapped in cane or woven netting, set on a cloth with blue and white ties. Behind him, a second seated man in white dhoti looks on. A brass plate holds yellow flowers and a mound of white grains or rice, and a wooden door with brass studs stands in the background.2017-04-03February 27 20162016-02-27February 27 20162016-02-27 +1 copiesJune 07 20152015-06-07November 28 20152015-11-28December 23 20102010-12-23