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Outdoor fire ritual on a bare red-earth field at dusk, with rows of participants seated on blue and green mats before small square brick fire pits burning with flames. Most participants wear white garments with orange shawls or sashes over their shoulders, and women with long black hair predominate. A woman in the foreground in white with an orange shawl feeds sticks into the fire pit beside a small brass vessel and papers placed on the mat. Behind the rows, a framed portrait sits on a small white altar with a flower garland, flanked by trees and low buildings under a cloudy sky. This is a homa/yagna performed in a group.

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Outdoor fire ritual on bare reddish earth at dusk, with many participants seated cross-legged on blue and green mats before small square brick fire pits. Each pit holds a burning flame, and participants tend them with brass vessels and ladles. Most wear white clothing with orange-saffron shawls or stoles, and several have long dark hair pulled back. A framed deity murti or portrait stands on a white-draped table at the upper left, and a small blue tent-like structure is visible on the right. Trees and a distant horizon frame the scene. This appears to be a homa carried out in open ground.Outdoor homa performed by a row of women in white traditional clothing seated on blue and green mats on reddish earth. Each sits behind a small square fire pit built of white bricks with flames rising, and they tend the fires with ladles and spoons. The woman in the foreground, wearing a white sari with a gold-toned border and a long dark braid, holds her hands together in front of her. Dusk light falls across the scene, with more brick fire pits and small stacked brick structures in the background.Outdoors on reddish-brown earth at dusk, rows of practitioners sit cross-legged on mats before small square fire pits built from white bricks, each with a bright flame and brass vessels with offerings. Most wear white clothes with orange-saffron shawls draped over their shoulders, hands pressed together in anjali. In the foreground a woman in a white sari with an orange shawl sits with palms joined, and another woman in white with an orange shawl kneels at the right edge beside a fire pit and brass bowl. The scene reads as a homa or yagna performed in a group ritual.Outdoor homa ceremony at dusk on bare red earth. Several participants sit cross-legged on green mats behind rectangular white brick fire pits with open flames. Most wear white clothing with orange-saffron shawls; one woman in the foreground wears a white sari with a gold border and a dark braid. A framed image of a seated deity murti, on a white-draped table with red flowers, stands at left. Trees fill the background.Outdoors on a dry, reddish-brown earth field, many participants in white dhoti-style clothing sit or kneel on blue and teal mats before small brick fire pits (homa kundas) with burning flames and brass vessels beside them. Several people wear orange-bordered shawls. Their bodies are bent forward in prostration or offering. Behind them, a framed portrait stands on a low platform among trees, and a blue-roofed building and a smoky haze appear on the horizon under a pale evening sky.Outdoor homa ceremony on bare reddish-brown ground at dusk. Rows of seated participants in white clothes with orange shawls sit on blue mats behind small square brick fire pits with flames. In the foreground, a woman with wavy light-brown hair in white clothes and an orange shawl sits with palms pressed together in namaskar beside a fire pit with a metal vessel and offering items. Other participants fold their hands in prayer behind her. A red-roofed building with a green roof and palm trees stand in the background under a cloudy sky.Outdoor photo of a bare dirt field at dusk where many people in white dhotis and white shirts with orange shawls kneel and bow on blue-and-white mats before small brick fire pits with burning flames. A standing man in white with an orange shawl stands near a small framed picture on a stand at the back. Trees, a blue-roofed structure and smoke from the fires fill the background.Outdoors on bare reddish earth at dusk, a row of women in plain white cotton saris with gold borders sit cross-legged on blue tarps before rectangular white brick fire pits. Each small pit burns with flames, and the women hold ladles and bronze bowls over the fire, performing a homa or yagna. In the foreground a woman with a hair bun and rudraksha mala raises her hands in anjali, while nearby a woman holds a ladle over the flames. Trees, a red-roofed building and a few palms form the background, and small oil lamps sit at the front.Outdoor homa ceremony at dusk on bare earth. Several people in white clothes with orange shawls kneel behind low white-brick fire pits, where flames rise and small vessels sit near the fires. In the foreground a woman with a long dark braid wears a white garment with an orange shawl, and a bronze vessel rests beside a pit. Behind the pits, a framed portrait of a seated figure on a throne stands on a white-draped table with flowers. Trees and a pale sky form the background.Outdoor homa ceremony at dusk on bare earth, with rows of participants seated on blue and green mats behind small brick fire pits with flames. In the foreground a woman with light brown hair in a white robe and orange shawl sits with palms pressed together in prayer, a beaded mala around her neck, a book on her lap. Nearby, a young girl in white with an orange shawl sits with hands joined beside a brass vessel and fire. Many other participants in white robes and orange shawls kneel or sit in lines across the field under trees and a pale evening sky.Outdoor homa ritual at dawn or dusk on a bare red-earth ground, with rows of small brick fire pits burning with flames. Many participants in white clothes with orange-saffron shawls sit cross-legged on blue and green mats, feeding offerings into the fires with long ladles and bowls. A small altar on the right holds a framed picture and offering items on a white cloth, and trees and haze fill the background under a low sun.Outdoor homa ceremony on bare dry earth at dusk, with several small brick fire pits burning. Many participants in white dhoti-style clothes with orange or saffron shawls kneel or bow forward over blue and teal mats beside the flames, with brass vessels and offerings near the pits. A framed portrait of a deity or sage sits on a white-draped altar in the background, and smoke rises from a fire at the rear beyond scattered trees and a white building.