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A homa fire burns in a brick-lined fire pit on a striped woven mat, with flames rising from glowing embers. Beside it, a metal tray holds yellow flower garlands, round yellow fruits wrapped in cloth and a silver basket of grain. On the right, a white cloth carries a colourful rangoli-style design in yellow, orange and black powders with red and yellow fruits and scattered petals. Flower garlands and a small brass lamp stand at the left edge, with more devotees' seated legs visible in the background. No one is clearly visible in the frame.

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April 26 20182018-04-26 +1 copiesJune 23 20172017-06-23June 23 20172017-06-23A homa fire burns inside a square pit built of stacked orange-brown bricks, dressed with red flowers and white powder. Dry sticks rise above the flames. Around the pit are brass and silver vessels, a bowl of red chillies, bananas, halved coconuts, incense sticks and a kalasha-style pot on striped woven mats, with a ritual officiant partly visible in white cloth at upper right. No clearly identifiable a person figure is visible.2017-07-04 +2 copiesJune 23 20172017-06-23May 29 20182018-05-29A homa fire burns in a tiered white brick fire pit on a paved courtyard, its tiers wrapped in yellow and red flower garlands with kolam designs drawn on the ground around it. Three bare-chested men in white dhotis sit cross-legged at the fire; the one on the right holds his hands over the flames, another in a saffron-yellow shawl is at the left, and a man in a turban with a white dhoti sits behind them. Trays of flowers, fruit, bowls of offerings and brass vessels surround the pit, and to the right a shrine is hung with red and white garlands. Several seated devotees in white clothes watch from the left, one in a red scarf.2013-07-19June 23 20172017-06-23April 14 20182018-04-14 +1 copiesJune 19 20162016-06-19September 16 20132013-09-16A homa fire ritual at night in a courtyard. A central fire blazes in a brick fire pit, and a priest bare-chested in a white dhoti with a red turban pours offerings into it from a brass vessel. Around the pit are marigold garlands, bowls of fruit, apples, brass vessels and kalasha pots draped in cloth. Several men sit on mats in white dhotis and rudraksha malas, and one man in saffron clothing is at the right edge. A man in the foreground with his back to the camera wears a rudraksha mala. Floral decorations and fruit offerings cover the ground around the fire.2016-08-05