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Night-time homa at an outdoor ashram setting with a golden fire pit (kunda) burning brightly and smoke rising. Several people sit cross-legged around the fire in white dhotis and white garments; one man in the centre wears white with a striped cloth and offers ghee or wood into the flames. A shirtless young man in a white dhoti with green-and-gold border sits at left with a raised hand near the fire. A man in a red shawl with ornate green-gold border sits at right, and a standing man in white dhoti with a bare upper body stands in the background. Strings of coloured lights hang above, a brass vessel and offerings sit on the fire platform, and a bowl of flower petals lies in front. Behind them a large seated group of devotees in white and red garments watches. a person is not clearly identifiable from appearance here, so no candidate is named.

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