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Outdoor ritual at an ashram courtyard: several seated people in white clothes with yellow shawls sit beside circular fire pits with black ash and stacked firewood. A standing figure in white with an orange sash and a striped yellow-and-black umbrella holds a video camera, filming the rite. Six more people in white sit on bamboo mats in the foreground, and a row of black stone deity murtis stands behind a low wall.

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July 21 20102010-07-21July 21 20102010-07-21July 21 20102010-07-21Outdoor scene on a dirt ground beside a white-walled building with a green corrugated roof, palm trees behind, and carved stone figures lining a bed. Several devotees in white dhoti and kurta sit cross-legged on dark ash-circle mats across the ground, some wearing yellow shawls and others red shawls, with small fires and smoke rising from fire pits in front of them. A man in white stands at the centre-left, and another in white walks at the right edge. A small wooden tray or cloth sits in one ash circle. The setting appears to be a rural ashram courtyard in the morning.2010-08-14Outdoor ritual at an ashram courtyard. In the foreground, five men sit cross-legged on woven mats facing away from the camera, wearing white kurtas and dhotis, one in a checked shirt. Beyond them, a row of men in white clothes with yellow shawls sits on raised mounds of ash-covered ground beside white stepped platforms. At the far left, a man in saffron-orange robes and an orange shawl sits on a mat with a garland of marigold flowers draped over a stone deity murti, with an open book in front of him. Palm trees and greenery line the background.2010-07-19Outdoor homa or yagna scene with smoke rising among trees. Several young men in white dhotis and white kurtas, with yellow scarves draped over their shoulders, sit cross-legged in shallow circular fire pits on bare earth, ringed with grey ash and charred logs. Their hands rest on their laps and their eyes are closed in meditation. A few more people stand or sit in the background through the haze.2010-07-11August 17 20062006-08-17Outdoors in a palm-lined ashram compound, a group of about a dozen people in white clothes with yellow shawls sit cross-legged in a grid of circular raised rings of pale stones on bare earth. Some sit upright with eyes closed in meditation, while one man in white bends forward to adjust something near the rings. A few people stand in the background among thatched fences and a small white building with a green roof. A stone grinding mill or pot stands at left, and a row of small stone figures lines the right edge.2010-07-10Outdoor ashram scene on a dirt ground with dark ash or soot marks. In the foreground a person in a saffron-orange shawl sits cross-legged on a mat beside a brass vessel, head covered. To the left, a shaved-headed man in white with an orange cloth sits on the ground beside a seated person in yellow, and a partially visible person in orange sits at the bottom edge. Two women in white and cream saris walk through the background, one carrying a white bag. On the right, a man in white with an orange scarf holds a camera under a lavender umbrella beside a white plastic chair and a black speaker stand. Behind them is an orange-painted building with a tin roof and a small dark-stone deity murti.2010-08-25August 07 20102010-08-07July 11 20102010-07-11June 13 20102010-06-13