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A large open hall during a fire ritual, with many devotees seated on the sandy floor in rows, mostly dressed in white, with some in coloured saris. Fire pits are dug into the ground in front with small brass vessels and offerings beside them, and smoke drifts through the air. Palm fronds and tall poles decorate the structure overhead, and fluorescent tube lights hang from the rafters. Several people sit with hands folded in prayer, while a woman in an orange sari and a man in white in the foreground look toward the fire. A banner with text is visible on the upper right wall. a person's presence is not clearly visible in this image.

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July 17 20062006-07-17July 17 20062006-07-17A large open hall filled with many devotees dressed in white seated on mats before tiered white fire altars during a yajna. In the foreground, a man in white with a rudraksha mala folds his hands in prayer beside a white fire pit with a small flame. An older man in white with a mala and a blue badge holds a brass dish and a pot of offerings near another fire pit with red flower offerings. Overhead tube lights hang from a tarpaulin ceiling, and hazy smoke fills the space. Hundreds of people are visible across the hall, so the count is 100+ in total, though only a few are clearly identifiable.2006-07-17July 17 20062006-07-17A large smoky hall during a fire ritual with many seated participants in white clothing. In the foreground, a man with a shaved head wears an orange robe and sits beside a stone fire pit, with offering vessels nearby. Tall fluorescent tube lights hang from the ceiling and banana-leaf and palm decorations frame the scene, with hanging garlands overhead. Dozens of devotees in white dhotis and saris sit on the floor, some wearing rudraksha malas, while smoke drifts through the room. The setting suggests a homa or yagna, but the figure in orange is not clearly identifiable from appearance alone.2006-07-17A photograph of a large hall filled with smoke during a fire ritual. Many devotees sit on mats on the floor, most dressed in white clothing, some women in white saris with flowers in their hair. In the foreground, a man with grey hair sits with his hands folded, and a woman in a teal top and a bowl of pink flowers sits nearby. At the lower right, a fire burns in a raised fire pit with a brass vessel beside it. Long fluorescent tubes hang from bamboo poles and sugarcane stalks decorate the hall. A figure in white stands near the back at the right, and a camera stands on a tripod nearby. The scene suggests a yajna with a fire offering, and the setting is a hall with a smoke-filled ceiling.2006-07-17A large open-sided pavilion filled with many seated participants performing a homa, a fire offering, on the ground. Smoke rises through the centre of the frame from a fire pit in front of a woman in a white sari with a light-blue badge, holding a plate. Other participants, mostly in white clothes, sit on mats around low white tiered platforms with small oil lamps. A woman in a yellow-and-pink sari with a rudraksha mala and a man in white dhoti sit nearby. Long rows of fluorescent tubes hang from a metal roof with pillars. Several people in the background wear white. No single a person candidate is clearly visible.2006-07-17A large hall filled with smoke during a fire ritual, with many devotees seated on mats in white clothes. In the foreground a bald man in a white shirt sits beside a man in white with a dark shirt collar, and an older man with grey hair in a white shirt sits at right. Small white brick fire pits with burning flames are placed among the seated congregation, and tall palm-like poles and fluorescent tube lights line the ceiling. A woman in white with a garland sits at right. No clearly identifiable a person is visible in the frame.2006-07-17Photograph of a large open-hall fire ritual (homa/yagna) under smoke, with banana-leaf and palm-frond decorations and rows of lights overhead. At the left front, a man in an orange-and-saffron shawl sits behind a low table of brass vessels, flowers and offerings, with a woman in a red-orange garland-adorned sari beside him. Rows of seated devotees in white clothing fill the floor, several with hands joined in prayer, and a figure in an orange wrap sits among them in the foreground. Dense crowd beyond. Candidate a person for the orange-shawled figure at the altar, but appearance cues are limited, so identity is uncertain.2006-07-17A large open-sided pavilion with a tin roof, rows of tube lights hanging from wooden poles and a sandy floor holds a mass fire-offering ritual. Many people in white clothes sit cross-legged around square white-painted fire altars (homa kundas) with small flames burning. In the foreground, a man in white sits behind a white altar with a brass vessel and a plate of red flowers. A man in white at right serves items on a plate on a mat. Crowds of seated participants fill the background.2006-07-17A large open-sided pavilion with a corrugated roof and rows of white fluorescent tubes hanging from the beams, filled with smoke. Women in white cotton clothing sit on the sandy floor before small fire pits, with smoke rising around them. In the foreground, a woman in a white blouse and mundu stirs a fire pit with a long ladle, while a woman in a pink-bordered cream sari with a hair clip and bead necklace sits beside it. Several palm trees stand among the pillars, and small offering plates sit on mats near the fire pits. a person is not clearly visible in this image.2006-07-17A large open-sided pandal hall with a dusty earthen floor and a corrugated roof, lined with rows of white tube lights on bamboo posts. Many devotees in white clothing sit cross-legged on mats in long rows behind small white circular fire pits, several with small flames and offering plates, some holding brass vessels and trays of offerings. Bright sunlight and haze fill the hall. No clearly identifiable a person figure is visible at the front of the hall in this view.2006-07-17