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Night photograph of four people seated cross-legged with eyes closed on flat stone-like platforms set into a pale, ash-coloured ground, each platform ringed by a shallow circular trench. On the left a man in beige kurta-style clothes and a beaded necklace sits with hands in his lap. In front, a woman in a white shawl and white outfit wears a white headband, eyes closed, hands folded. Behind her a man in white kurta sits on his platform. On the right a woman in white clothing with a beaded mala sits with hands resting on her knees. Dark trees, a distant building and a faint figure appear in the background, with a small flame visible at the lower right edge. Scene suggests a meditation or sitting practice in an open outdoor area at night.

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Night-time outdoor scene on bare, dusty ground where five people in plain white clothes sit cross-legged in meditation on raised circular earthen platforms, each set in a shallow ash-dusted depression. A woman with long blonde hair in the foreground sits with bare feet on a platform; a grey-haired woman in a light beige top sits in the centre; a man in white sits on the right; two more white-clad figures sit at the far left. Two tall wooden poles with bright lights stand behind them against a dark sky, and a few scattered stones and a plastic bottle lie on the ground.2007-08-11Night photograph of five people seated in meditation on bare ground at a ritual site. Circular fire-pit beds of pale ash surround them. The foreground man wears white kurta and dhoti, a beaded mala necklace, a bangle and barefoot posture. 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In the foreground a man with short dark hair, white kurta and white dhoti, wearing a rudraksha mala and a bangle, sits with eyes closed and hands joined on his lap, seated on a sand mound inside a ring of ash. Behind him two more white-clad figures sit near a second fire pit, one in a white head covering, and a fourth sits in the far background under dim lights.2007-08-11Night photograph of people sitting cross-legged in white clothing on raised circular earthen platforms set into bare ground, each ringed by ash-darkened charred edges, with thin upright poles and a strung wire behind them against a black sky. In the foreground a woman with blonde hair in a braid sits in a white top and white trousers, bare-footed, on a platform. Further back, a man in white sits on a platform, a man with grey hair and glasses wears white and sits with hands folded, and two more figures in white sit in the distance. 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At right, a person in a white turban with red-and-white stripes and a brown shawl sits on a brick by a fire pit. At left, a figure in orange robes stands near others in white. A tree with red cloth or ribbons stands in the background. No one is identified as a person.2007-02-07A night-time outdoor fire ritual on bare sandy ground. Many participants in white clothing and white head-cloths sit cross-legged on low brick or stone seats around small circular fire pits, some with glowing embers and flames. A few wear orange or red head-cloths. Smoke hangs in the dark air, and a lamp glows in the distance. In the foreground, a seated person in white with a white wrap over the head tends a fire pit, with a water bottle beside them. A standing figure in white stands at the left edge. The scene suggests a sacred fire ritual in the Agni process style.2007-02-07Night-time outdoor photo of a sacred fire ritual on bare sandy ground. 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A few thin vertical lights stand in the background, and a small tent-like structure is visible far back. The image is dark with the fire glow lighting the nearby figures.2007-02-07Night photograph of an outdoor sacred fire ritual on bare earth. Many participants in plain white clothes sit cross-legged around small fire pits, several wearing white head cloths. Small flames burn in shallow ring-shaped pits in the foreground, and smoke rises. Blue vertical lights and a string of marigold-style lights line the open ground, and a glowing red decorative sign stands at the right. Some figures in the background sit in rows, while a person in an orange-brown wrap sits near the left. The scene looks like a yagna or agni ritual.2007-02-07A night-time outdoor scene at a sacred fire ritual area with sandy ground and charred wood. In the foreground, a man with reddish hair and a white headband sits cross-legged on a fire pit with a white t-shirt and cream trousers, hands resting on his knees. 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