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June 19 20142014-06-19 +1 copiesJune 29 20142014-06-29June 29 20142014-06-29June 29 20142014-06-29Evening homa at an outdoor ritual ground. Several participants sit cross-legged on the ground behind low white brick fire pits, where flames rise from wood and offerings. In the foreground a woman in a cream sari with a red-and-gold circular badge pours liquid into a brass vessel near the fire. Beside her a man in white kurta and white dhoti with a rudraksha mala pours from a small vessel into a fire pit. Other seated devotees in white and colourful saris, a few with badges, continue the rites behind them, and a string of green lights and a red cloth canopy appear overhead. No one in the scene is identified as a person.2014-06-29 +1 copiesOutdoor fire ritual at a homa pit built of white bricks and decorated with yellow and orange marigold petals. Two young men in white dhotis and white shirts sit cross-legged at the fire. The man on the right, wearing a yellow shawl and a small lapel microphone, holds a ladle over the flames. The man beside him wears a yellow shawl and a rudraksha mala. A brass bowl sits at the left edge of the pit. Behind them, a crowd of devotees in white and blue sits and watches, including women in white and a woman in a blue sari. No one in the image is clearly identifiable as a person; the visible participants appear to be ritual assistants or devotees.2010-07-24June 06 20102010-06-06A tall fire rises from a brick-lined homa pit in the foreground, with a copper vessel and offerings beside it. A man in the centre wears a red-orange turban and a dark beaded mala, and tends the fire while holding a ladle-like implement. Behind him, several men in white dhotis and shawls sit in a blurred group, one wearing a dark mala and another a red head wrap. The scene reads as a fire ritual during a yagna. Any identification of a person is not supported by distinctive visible cues, so the role of the central figure is described as a priest tending the homa.2015-07-09A photograph of a homa fire ritual at night. In the foreground a shaved-headed priest in white dhoti with a maroon-bordered shawl and beaded gold necklace holds a copper plate of burning offerings over a flame, while another priest kneels behind him, wearing a similar white cloth and gold beads, stirring a bowl. A brass vessel sits on the ground, and a fire pit glows at lower left. Behind them, seated figures in white and a figure in red sit near a red-cushioned chair and a white armchair.2010-10-16October 16 20102010-10-16A photograph of a fire ritual (homa/yagna) in a temple hall. Two shirtless men with rudraksha malas sit before a square brick fire pit with a bright flame. The central man wears a maroon turban, a white dhoti and a striped shawl, and holds a ritual implement over the fire. A younger man beside him sits with a mala. At the right, a man in a white dhoti with a yellow-green cloth bends forward holding a small bell-like vessel. Yellow and orange flower garlands and marigolds surround the pit, and orange-clothed figures stand in the background with a golden ornate structure behind them. The a person-attribution is not visibly supported by appearance.2018-01-06Outdoor homa ceremony on bare ground with several rows of white brick fire pits, flames rising from the nearest one. Priests in white dhotis and kurtas sit on mats and low white platforms, holding ladles, brass pots and bowls of offerings; the foreground priest wears a rudraksha-style mala and gold bangles. Marigold petals and orange cloth lie among the altars. Behind them a large audience in white sits beneath a red-draped pavilion with banana leaves and a parked truck. No candidate for a person is clearly visible in the foreground; the scene is a group fire ritual.2010-07-24