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Close view of offerings for a fire ritual: bunches of ripe yellow bananas, green mangoes and cut green fruit, sugarcane stalks and a halved coconut with turmeric, with smoke and flames rising at the left. Warm bokeh lights glow behind the offerings and a deity murti with a rudraksha mala is partly visible at the right edge. Readable caption at the bottom reads Nithyanandeshwara Paramashiva Devalayam, Adi KAILASA and Navaratri 2021, Day 6 - Vishesha Dravya Homa.

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October 12 20212021-10-12October 12 20212021-10-12A ritual offering scene at a homa. A hand in an orange sleeve pours ghee or oil from a metal vessel onto a heap of ripe yellow bananas topped with a coconut husk. Smoke rises at left beside a small flame, and a sacred thread and bracelets are visible on the wrist. Blurred flower garlands in yellow and red and a green cloth appear in the background. The photo captions the event as Navaratri 2021 Day 2 Vishesha Dravya Homa at Nithyanandeshwara Paramashiva Devalayam, Adi KAILASA.2021-10-08A close photograph of a ritual offering in a temple setting. A cluster of ripe yellow bananas, with dark speckling, is heaped in the foreground. A hand wearing a rudraksha mala and a bronze vessel pours a thin stream of white liquid over the bananas, and a dried coconut sits beside them. Smoke or incense haze drifts behind, with red and green tones in the background. The scene reflects a Navaratri homa offering of fruit and liquid.2021-10-07A close-up photograph of a ritual offering. A pair of bare arms, wearing red and yellow threaded wrists, pours a thin stream of golden liquid from a metal vessel onto a heap of yellow bananas topped with a split brown coconut. Wisps of smoke drift at left against soft red and green background cloth. The caption reads Nithyanandeshwara Paramashiva Devalayam, Adi KAILASA, Navaratri 2021 Day 1 Vishesha Dravya Homa and Chandi Homa Purnahuti, consistent with a homa offering. No person's face is visible.2021-10-07October 07 20212021-10-07A close photograph of a ritual offering of bananas. A cluster of yellow bananas fills the lower frame, with a dried coconut at the centre. A person's arm, wearing a red and orange sacred thread on the wrist, pours liquid from a silver vessel onto the offering. Smoke or haze drifts behind. Overlaid caption reads Nithyanandeshwara Paramashiva Devalayam, Adi KAILASA, Navaratri 2021, Day 1 - Vishesha Dravya Homa & Chandi Homa Purnahuti.2021-10-07A close view of a heap of yellow bananas, a halved coconut with its husk, and a pineapple in a brass or wooden offering vessel, shown during a Chandi Homa offering. Steam or smoke rises from the left, and an orange cloth edge appears at the right. The offerings are the visible focus of the scene; no people are visible.2021-10-07October 07 20212021-10-07October 08 20212021-10-08A ritual offering scene in a temple setting. A person in an orange robe with white sacred ash markings on the arms pours liquid from a silver vessel onto a coconut resting on a heap of yellow bananas. Smoke drifts through the frame, and a blurred garland of yellow and red flowers appears in the background. Bead bracelets are visible on the wrist, and the offering is part of a homa-style Vishesha Dravya Homa during Navaratri.2021-10-08October 12 20212021-10-12