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Night photograph inside a open-sided hall during a Chandi Homa fire ritual. A woman in an orange-red saree stands at a square fire pit, holding a round brass tray and scattering red flowers or petals into the flames, which send up smoke and an orange glow. To the right, a large decorated deity murti of a multi-armed goddess with a lion mount sits on a pedestal garlanded with yellow and green flowers, under a red and gold canopy. To the left, a gilded shrine with a small figure inside. A bright lamp hangs overhead. No a person candidate is visible.

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