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Night-time outdoor homa or yagna at an open-sided shelter with a blue metal frame and string lights overhead. Several fire pits built from yellow-painted bricks burn brightly, surrounded by floral garlands, fruits, bananas, coconuts and brass vessels heaped with wood. A bare-chested priest in a white dhoti with a pink head cloth tends one fire, pouring an offering, while many white-clad men and women in white saris and dhotis stand and sit around the sacred fire area.

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March 11 20172017-03-11Night-time homa or yagna at an open-air outdoor ritual space under a blue metal-frame canopy, with smoke haze and string lights above. A fire pit burns at the centre-right with offerings and rice on a yellow-painted platform. Many men and women in white dhotis and saris stand and kneel around it, several bare-chested with white sacred threads. A seated priest in white dhoti and a red headcloth, with a rudraksha-style necklace and tilak, plays a ladle or spoon over a metal vessel. Dozens of decorated coconuts with flower garlands and blue-and-white ribbons sit in rows, with bananas, fruit and a kalasha-like pot nearby. Crowd is visible across the frame.2017-03-11Night outdoor homa or yagna at an open-sided shed with blue metal framing and string lights. Several men in bare upper bodies and white dhotis kneel and stand around square yellow-brick fire pits decorated with flowers, petals, bananas, coconuts and fruit-filled baskets. Flames rise from the central pit as a shirtless man in a red head cloth pours from a vessel into the fire. A bundle of firewood sits in a brass pot in the foreground. Behind them, women in white saris and men in white and orange clothing stand in a large crowd.2017-03-11Night outdoor homa in an open-air ceremony under a blue metal frame strung with small lights. Several fire pits built from yellow-painted bricks burn with flames, each surrounded by brass vessels, marigold and flower garlands, decorated coconuts wrapped in white and blue ribbons, bananas, apples and fruit offerings. Priests in white dhotis, many bare-chested and wearing rudraksha malas, sit or stand around the fires; one in the foreground pours from a brass vessel and another in front holds a pink-and-white cloth wrap. A man in a saffron-coloured robe and a few men in orange and red head cloths are among the crowd of devotees standing behind, some holding brass plates. A wooden stack of sticks sits in a metal pot at lower left.2017-03-11Night photograph of a large outdoor homa (fire ritual) at an ashram. A priest seated at the front, with a pink-red turban and bare chest, holds a long ritual implement over a brick fire pit where flames rise, surrounded by offerings of bananas, fruits, flowers and marigold garlands. Many other men in white dhotis, some bare-chested and some in white shirts, stand and sit around the rows of fire pits and offering trays. A steel pail of wooden sticks sits in the foreground. The cluster of men stands at roughly the 21-100 range.2017-03-11March 11 20172017-03-11 +1 copiesMay 10 20172017-05-10May 26 20172017-05-26May 02 20172017-05-02May 26 20172017-05-26September 05 20172017-09-05 +2 copiesMay 10 20172017-05-10