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Night outdoor fire ritual at a homa pit built of alternating white and red brick tiers. A young man in saffron-orange robes kneels at the pit, tending a bright flame with a ladle or stick. Behind him stands a standing man in white ritual clothes and glasses, beside a gilded ornate palanquin-style platform holding two deity murtis draped in red and yellow flower garlands; one is crowned in red. Oil lamps glow on the platform and beside the pit, with brass plates of offerings on the ground at left. A seated woman in a blue-and-white sari watches at left under a red canopy. The orange-robed figure is a priest performing the fire ritual; no identifiable a person candidate is clearly present.

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