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A square brick homa fire pit burns with bright orange flames on a low platform, its edges marked with white ritual lines. Behind it stands a gold-trimmed altar or peetha draped with white garlands and yellow-and-maroon flower arrangements around metal vessels. A gold lidded vessel sits at the left, and brass and steel pots, ladles and offering bowls surround the fire on the right, with a pan of dried stalks. A cloth backdrop hangs behind. No people are visible.

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