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A woman with light brown hair pulled back sits cross-legged with eyes closed on a woven mat at the centre of a circular fire pit at an outdoor site of sandy ground. She wears a loose white kurta and white pants. Flames burn at intervals around the ring of dark charred logs, and a clay bowl of ash or offering sits beside her next to a stack of unfired bricks and a water bottle. Smoke drifts across the scene. Two other figures in white sit at neighbouring fire rings in the background, one at upper left and one at upper right. This appears to be a homa-style fire ritual.

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