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Indoor temple-room ritual at an ashram: a shaved-headed priest in white dhoti stands with palms joined at left beside a gilded, red-cushioned chair. In the centre, a man in an orange-saffron dhoti and bare upper body pours from a vessel over a dark stone platform (peetha) decorated with white and pink flower garlands, while other robed attendants in saffron and white hold brass trays and ritual items. Behind them stand deity figures and a darker figure with a golden crown and garland. A square brick fire pit with burning embers and small oil lamps sits in the foreground, with brass pots, banana leaves and flower petals on the floor. A wooden staircase with garlands runs along the right wall.

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June 28 20142014-06-28 +1 copiesJune 28 20142014-06-28 +1 copiesJune 28 20142014-06-28 +1 copiesIndoor ritual in a home-style room with wood floors and a staircase at right. A brick-lined fire pit with a small flame sits at lower right, surrounded by brass vessels, plates, banana leaves and marigold garlands. At the centre, several priests in orange and ochre dhoti-style garments and a bare-chested man in brown cloth perform puja before a row of deity murti on a draped table decorated with white and red flower garlands. A man in white kurta and white dhoti stands at left near a gold-framed orange armchair, hands folded. Incense smoke drifts through the room.2014-06-28 +1 copiesJune 28 20142014-06-28June 28 20142014-06-28 +1 copiesJune 28 20142014-06-28June 28 20142014-06-28 +1 copiesJune 28 20142014-06-28 +1 copiesJune 28 20142014-06-28 +1 copiesA photograph of a Prana Prathista ritual in a ritual room. A standing man in a rust-brown robe and maroon turban, with a rudraksha mala, stands with palms pressed together before three murtis on a purple-draped platform: a male figure, a central deity in white with a crown, and a female figure in red-and-green sari. Garlands of white and pink flowers surround the altar. In front, a fire pit of bricks burns with offerings and flower petals. At lower left, a man in white dhoti with gold border kneels, and two people in saffron/orange robes sit nearby. A gold-and-red throne stands at left beside a tripod-mounted camera.2014-06-28June 28 20142014-06-28 +1 copies