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November 12 20082008-11-12November 12 20082008-11-12November 12 20082008-11-12November 12 20082008-11-12November 12 20082008-11-12Outdoor bhoomi puja at a rocky, tree-lined site under a decorated canopy with colourful fringed valance. A long-haired figure in orange robes and a red-orange garment with rudraksha mala stands with palms joined at the centre, facing a square brick-and-flower-lined pit where a young sapling is planted beside a kalasha-like pot and a small pitcher. Around them, men in white dhotis and shirts and saffron-robed men and women stand or kneel with palms folded; a bearded man in orange robes stands at right. Trays of flowers, fruit, sweets, coconuts and a brass lamp lie on cloths on the ground, and an orange-clad attendant holds a yellow flag at right. Mounded red earth lies in the foreground beside a stone slab.2008-11-12November 12 20082008-11-12April 19 20082008-04-19November 12 20082008-11-12A photograph of an outdoor planting ceremony at dusk. A person in an orange robe and orange turban, wearing a green and pink garland, bends down and pours water from a metal vessel onto a sapling planted in the earth. A red clay pot stands beside the sapling. Around them, devotees in white dhotis and orange shawls stand with hands pressed together in namaskar, and a man in a white shirt bends forward smiling at right. The sapling is being watered as a tree-planting rite.2006-09-24November 12 20082008-11-12February 04 20172017-02-04 +1 copies