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A seated man in white clothes and an orange shawl sits cross-legged with hands folded in his lap, eyes lowered, on sandy ground inside a circular ring of ash. A rudraksha mala is visible at his neck. Other seated people appear faintly at the edges of the dim, dusty scene, consistent with a monastic training gathering. Tied to a page for a monastic training convention at Aadi Kailasa, Bidadi, the figure's appearance is consistent with a candidate but not distinctive enough to confirm identity.

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August 17 20062006-08-17August 18 20062006-08-18June 13 20102010-06-13August 17 20062006-08-17June 13 20102010-06-13A photograph of a man in plain white ritual clothes sitting cross-legged with eyes closed on bare sandy ground inside a circle of smouldering dung cakes and burning wooden logs, with small flames along the ring. A clay dish holding a small offering of ash or dung sits beside him. Behind, a second seated figure in white with an orange shawl sits in another fire ring. The setting appears to be an open-air ritual ground, consistent with a homa or fire-based sadhana.2006-08-17August 17 20062006-08-17August 18 20062006-08-18Outdoor photo of a seated sannyasi in orange robes meditating with hands folded in his lap, eyes closed, on a raised circular platform inside a ring of ash and charred wood from a fire pit. Behind him, several men in white dhotis and yellow shawls sit in similar ash-ringed platforms amid smoke, with a white stone structure at the left edge. The ground is bare sandy earth, and the scene suggests a homa or yagna ritual setting.2010-06-13A photograph of a Pancha-Tapas, or five-fire penance, held outdoors on bare reddish earth. A young man in a flowing saffron-orange robe sits cross-legged at the centre on a raised mound inside a ring of smouldering ash and charred logs, eyes closed in meditation. Around him, several people in white clothes sit in similar fire rings, with yellow shawls and a purple head covering visible; smoke drifts across the scene and a few partially burned logs lie on the ground. a person is named on the page, but the central figure's appearance is not clearly consistent with the ornate cues needed for a confident identification, so the figure is described by role as a meditating devotee in orange robes.2010-06-13Night-time photograph of a sandy outdoor ground lit by many small oil lamps arranged in circular and ring-shaped patterns. Numerous people in white clothes sit cross-legged in rows across the ground in the dim background. In the foreground, one person in white with an orange shawl sits inside a lamp-ringed circle, with a second seated figure in white nearby. The scene appears to be a monastic training gathering with lamps placed around the seated participants.2006-08-18August 17 20062006-08-17