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A photograph of a puja ceremony seated on a mat before a low brick-walled square structure with small lit lamps along its rim and sand inside. A bare-chested priest with a white tilak and an orange shawl over his shoulder sits at the centre, his hand reaching toward the brick enclosure. Beside him a bearded man with a white tilak and a bare chest holds a stick toward the ritual. An older man in a white dhoti and white top with a rudraksha mala sits at the right, holding a bundle of thin sticks over a brass plate of pink flowers, bananas and brass bowls. A woman in a green sari and a younger woman in white stand nearby, and many seated devotees in white clothes and grey shirts fill the background.

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June 12 20042004-06-12A seated group of devotees at a ritual gathering, with a woman in the foreground wearing a pink sari, gold necklaces, bangles and a flower-decorated hair ornament, sitting before brass bowls and a small lamp on white steps. Behind her, a bearded man in white with an orange shawl and a mala sits beside a woman in glasses and white, and others in white and orange shawls sit near garlanded altars with marigold and red flower decorations. Several people in white dhotis sit in the background.2006-12-26A homa ritual in a tent-like hall. In the centre, a man in orange robes and a rudraksha mala sits cross-legged before a square brick fire pit with burning embers and offerings. Beside him, a priest in orange and a seated attendant tend the fire. Standing priests in white dhotis with gold-bordered shawls, rudraksha malas and bare shoulders surround the area. To the right, a tiered altar with a deity murti and gold-framed images, brass lamps, and kalasha-like vessels. A red and green striped mat lies on the floor. Roughly ten people are visible.2015-09-14June 12 20042004-06-12February 16 20072007-02-16April 05 20122012-04-05A photograph of a puja ceremony in an open hall with a seated crowd of devotees, many with palms pressed together in namaste. In the foreground a bare-chested priest with a sandalwood-marked forehead, wearing a red-and-yellow dhoti and a white beaded necklace, holds a brass lamp with a lit flame and a brass vessel while performing the ritual. Nearby sit a bearded man in white with tripundra marks and a man in an orange robe. Before them is a brick-edged fire or offering platform decorated with bananas, fruits, flowers, pineapples and a red cloth-wrapped kalasha-like arrangement with paddy stalks. Several seated men wear white dhotis and white shirts; a few wear orange or saffron shawls.2004-06-12Indoor Hindu ritual gathering in a white-walled hall, with a bride in an orange-and-gold sari and a groom in white dhoti and shawl seated on the floor at a white-painted brick fire altar (homa/yagna) decorated with marigolds, fruit, kalasha-style vessels, brass lamps and a ceremonial trident-topped staff. A man in an orange robe with rudraksha mala sits at the front, speaking into a microphone, while another orange-clad priest and a woman in an orange sari with folded hands sit nearby. Behind them a large audience of devotees, many in white, sits on mats, with a shrine on the left holding deity murti and a golden swan-like figure, and a row of hanging paper lanterns above.2008-12-26December 26 20082008-12-26December 26 20082008-12-26July 11 20142014-07-11December 26 20062006-12-26