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Close photograph of a ritual setting beside a blazing fire. In the foreground is an ornate silver ladle-like vessel with a square cup, a flower rosette on its face, a carved handle and a small elephant head with raised trunk at its end, resting on a rough yellow-ochre stone surface. Behind it a copper-toned bowl sits on a ledge, and thick wooden logs burn in a bright flame at right. Thin incense sticks and a small brass lamp appear at the left edge. No people are visible. Text in the lower border reads the event caption for a yagashala homa.

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