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Night-time homa at a temple-style outdoor ritual space. A fire burns in a raised yellow-painted fire pit. A person in orange robes and an orange turban, with white sacred ash markings on the arms and bare chest, kneels at the pit adding offerings from a brass vessel. Beside the pit, two garlanded deity murti stand on a gold-framed stand decorated with marigold and red flower garlands. Behind the fire, many men with bare upper bodies and white dhotis sit cross-legged on striped mats, while women in white saris stand at the left. A woman in a maroon sari with a rudraksha mala stands centre-back. Brass pots, bowls of flowers and fruit and a tray of offerings sit in the foreground.

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