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Night homa at an outdoor fire pit with smoke and flames rising from a wooden fire on a low platform. A man in a rust-red dhoti with gold borders and a gold-and-flower garland holds a brass bell and a small lamp over the fire, while a second man in rust-red cloth stands beside him. A third person in a rust-red cloth and sacred ash stands near the platform, and a person in a bright pink turban stretches a hand toward a tray of wooden sticks at right. Brass pots and small bowls sit on a green cloth beside the fire. An orange upholstered throne-like chair stands to the right with a water bottle on a small stool. Several onlookers in white and orange stand behind in the dark. a person is the central figure in the gold-and-flower garland and rust-red dhoti, performing the ritual with bell and lamp, though his face is not clearly visible.

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