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Close photo of ritual metal materials laid out on a concrete floor for aushada preparation. In the foreground, several coils of bright silver-toned wire are stacked on steel trays, with a bundle of long thin silver rods lying across another tray on the right. Behind them, a plate holds flat silver-coloured pieces and a decorative lotus-like metal form. Green leaves lie at the lower left, and the edge of a red-orange cloth with a gold border appears at the top, with bare feet visible near the top right. No people are clearly shown beyond these feet and cloth. This is a photograph of spiritual alchemy materials.

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Close photo of silver ritual materials laid out on the ground for an aushada preparation. On the left, a silver tray holds thin curved silver leaves arranged in a fan and a stack of silver bars. On the right, coils of fine silver wire sit on a silver tray and a second tray, while a hand with a tattoo and gold bangles, wearing orange cloth, reaches toward the wire. A silver bowl of granular powder appears at the left edge. No deity or a person figure is clearly visible.2017-08-29August 29 20172017-08-29August 29 20172017-08-29August 29 20172017-08-29Overhead view of an aushada preparation at an ashram floor. Two silver trays hold coiled silver wire, and a square silver tray holds thin silver sheets arranged around a white flower-shaped offering with a small round centre. Bowls of dark ash, a white powder bowl and green leaves surround the items. At the top right, two people in orange and rust-coloured robes sit on the floor, one wearing a rudraksha mala, with their hands visible near the materials. No faces are shown in the frame.2017-08-29September 21 20162016-09-21Close photograph of a ritual preparation for aushada, with silver metal materials laid out on a flat ornate silver tray. Coiled silver wire rings sit in the foreground beside a silver tray holding silver bars and a flower-shaped arrangement of thin silver petals. A hand in the upper centre reaches toward the bars, while the lower body of a person in orange robes is visible at the top edge. Bowls of red powder and yellow-brown powder sit at the left edge on the sandy ground.2017-08-29A photograph of an Aushada preparation ritual inside a room with wooden latticed screens. On the left, a man sits cross-legged on the floor wearing a fur-trimmed headpiece, a saffron-brown shawl over bare shoulders, and beaded necklaces, resting his chin on his hand beside a microphone stand and a small brass container. On the right, a woman in a rust-red sari squats beside a large silver-covered vessel emitting steam, stirring a liquid in a shallow silver plate with a ladle. Around her lie several silver platters, a silver lotus-shaped stand, bundles of green leaves, a silver deity figure on a silver pedestal garlanded with marigolds, and a blue pot. Other women in orange robes stand in the background.2017-08-29April 11 20182018-04-11 +1 copiesClose-up photograph of a ritual fire on a shallow silver plate set on a tiled floor. Dry grass or bundled straw burns with bright flames and glowing embers, and wisps of smoke rise. A large ornate silver bowl with engraved floral borders sits at left, and a silver lamp or vessel with a curved handle appears at upper left. At right, a hand holding a thin stick or incense-like object feeds the fire; a rudraksha-style bead strand is visible at the wrist. The scene suggests a homa or fire offering, with no other people visible.2015-07-09December 20 20172017-12-20 +1 copiesA close photograph of a bundle of dried grass or straw held in a hand at right, its tip burning with bright orange flames and trailing dark charred fibres. Below, a polished silver ritual tray holds a pile of black charred material with glowing embers. The blurred background shows orange-red cloth. Only the partial hand is visible; no faces are shown.2013-11-07