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Night ritual at an open-air outdoor shrine with a long row of seated priests performing puja before tiered offerings of fruit, flowers and small kalasha-style vessels on banana leaves and low brick platforms. A man in the foreground sits with bare chest, white dhoti and orange cloth, a dark-haired young man with long matted hair and rudraksha mala looks over his shoulder. Smoke rises from the left, bright lights hang overhead, and a gilded ornate peetham or throne with orange drapery and flower garlands sits at the left edge. Standing devotees in white dhotis and shirts stand in the background near a metal railing, and a deity murti is visible at the right.

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May 10 20172017-05-10May 10 20172017-05-10May 10 20172017-05-10Night ritual under an open corrugated-roof shelter lit by bright floodlights, with smoke rising from a central fire pit. Priests in white dhotis, some bare-chested with sacred threads, perform a homa or puja over a long row of decorated kalasha pots wrapped in purple and white ribbons, banana-leaf offerings, yellow sweets, fruit and flower garlands. A figure in a saffron cloth with a red-orange turban stands at the table's far end, and a long-haired figure in saffron sits at the lower right. Behind them, many white-clad people stand under the trees, and at the right a golden ornate palanquin-style throne or deity frame is visible near a metal railing.2017-05-10May 10 20172017-05-10May 10 20172017-05-10March 11 20172017-03-11March 11 20172017-03-11Night-time outdoor homa at an ashram, with two fire pits burning amid heaps of marigold and rose flowers, banana leaves, fruit, coconuts and brass vessels. Several bare-chested men in white dhotis and orange or saffron cloths sit around the fire pits and offerings, one wearing a saffron head-wrap and a rudraksha mala. Behind them, more men in white dhotis and white shirts stand near a raised platform, and a bare-chested man in an orange cloth holds up an offering. Smoke drifts through strings of lights and trees in the background.2017-05-10January 05 20182018-01-05March 11 20172017-03-11May 10 20172017-05-10