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A photograph of a homa fire ceremony in a room with yellow-ochre walls and a row of framed portraits and pictures on the back wall. At the centre, a yellow-tiled square fire pit with a lit flame stands on a striped mat. Around it sit several priests in white dhotis: one bare-chested man in a cream turban tends the fire, another in a cream turban with a beaded mala offers at the altar, a man with folded hands sits behind him, and an older man in a white turban and long beaded malas sits at right. Yellow-wrapped kalasha pots garlanded with white flowers stand in the foreground, with plates of fruit, oranges, bananas, coconuts, rice, and flower-petal offerings. A tripod-mounted camera stands behind the fire pit.

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