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A photograph of a ritual offering heaped on a low brick platform: pineapples, bananas, green grapes, watermelons, a mango, a yellow squash and white gourd-like fruits arranged in a pile. Wisps of smoke or steam rise from the fruit, and a bare arm with a gold bangle reaches in from the left to place or adjust a banana. Behind the offering are garlands of yellow, white and red flowers and gilded ornamentation around a deity murti. The offering suggests a dravya homa or vishesha offering of fruits during Navaratri. No people are seen clearly apart from the partial arm.

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October 13 20212021-10-13October 13 20212021-10-13October 12 20212021-10-12Close view of a brick fire pit holding a heap of offerings during a homa: large green gourds, a halved watermelon, pineapple, red and green fruit pieces, grapes, sugarcane stalks and a scattering of grains or powder. Smoke rises from the pile. Behind it are gold lamps, a gold-patterned altar cloth, a red cloth and a metal bowl with a ladle. The caption reads Navaratri 2021, Day 6 - Vishesha Dravya Homa at Nithyanandeshwara Paramashiva Devalayam, Adi KAILASA. No people are visible.2021-10-12October 13 20212021-10-13October 07 20212021-10-07A photograph of a homa offering in progress at Nithyanandeshwara Paramashiva Devalayam, Adi KAILASA, during Navaratri Day 3 Vishesha Dravya Homa. A hand in a rust-coloured sleeve tilts a metal plate, pouring pineapples, grapes and other fruit and offerings onto a mound of golden grains in a fire pit. Dense smoke billows around the pit, and a brass oil lamp with a flame stands in the blurred background beside gold ritual vessels. Partially visible people in orange and gold clothing with beaded necklaces stand at the edge of the frame.2021-10-09October 09 20212021-10-09October 07 20212021-10-07October 11 20212021-10-11October 09 20212021-10-09Ritual offering scene with a smoking vessel of fruit: bananas, green mangoes, pineapples, apples and a spray of flowers arranged on a stone tray. Smoke rises at left. A man on the right wears an orange-saffron dhoti, rudraksha-style beaded necklaces, gold chains and a beaded wrist band, and holds a silver tray piled with round laddus. Behind him a second person in striped and green cloth is partly visible. Red draped fabric and a lit oil lamp appear in the background, consistent with a homa and fruit offering.2021-10-07