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Night outdoor fire ritual (homa) on a yellow-painted square platform edged with white and yellow flower garlands and rangoli-style white borders. A central sunken fire pit holds ash or sacrificial material. A man in saffron-orange robes with a white vertical forehead mark sits cross-legged on a white cushion, holding flowers or offering material and reading from a sheet of paper, with a microphone stand before him. Brass vessels, a kalasha-like pot and small lamps sit on the platform. A tall bamboo staff with an orange pennant rises behind him. Around him, a large seated crowd in white and cream clothes fills the dark ground, with several women in white saris and people in orange garments. Bundled firewood sits at the lower left, and decorative banners hang in the background.

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February 11 20072007-02-11Night outdoor homa at a yellow-painted square fire pit decorated with white kolam lines and marigold garlands. A seated man in saffron-orange robes, with a white forehead mark and a saffron cloth over his head, chants while holding a long ritual stick and a sacred cord, with a microphone stand before him. A younger assistant in white clothes and an orange shawl kneels at left, holding a plate of offerings. Small brass vessels, a kalasha and coconut-shaped offerings sit on the altar, with bundles of dry sticks at lower left. Many seated devotees in white and colourful clothes fill the background under string lights and smoke, with coloured ceremonial banners on poles behind. a person (saffron robes, orange head covering, white forehead mark) leads the homa as the presiding priest.2007-02-11February 11 20072007-02-11February 11 20072007-02-11Night-time homa at an outdoor yagna site. A seated priest in saffron-orange robes and a saffron head cloth, with white tilak on his forehead, speaks into a microphone while holding a ritual implement, with a sacred fire pit in the centre of a yellow platform decorated with white and orange flower garlands and rangoli-style patterns. Beside him, a young assistant in white with an orange shawl holds a metal plate of offerings, and dried sticks lie on the ground. Behind them a large seated crowd in white clothes fills the open ground, with smoke rising and tall decorated banners in the background.2007-02-11Outdoor evening satsang on a yellow flower-garlanded platform before a black backdrop with a large portrait of a smiling man in a yellow turban. A seated man in saffron-orange robes, with an ornate gold necklace, shaved head and bare feet, speaks into a microphone on a stand, his hand raised in gesture. Behind him, a white throne-like seat sits beneath a multicoloured arch of flowers, with a small deity murti and garlands. A framed portrait of a woman in orange garments, garlanded, stands at left. Ornamental umbrellas and brass finials line the stage. Devotees in white clothes sit on the ground at right, some wearing rudraksha malas, and white stone slabs with flower petals and brass bowls lie in the foreground.2007-02-11Night outdoor homa ceremony with a large orange-painted brick fire altar, adorned with white jasmine garlands, fruits, flowers and small brass vessels. A figure in saffron robes with a shaved head and tilak sits beside the altar holding a brass plate of offering sticks, while a second figure in saffron cloth with long dark hair, a rudraksha-style gold bead necklace and a shawl sits at a microphone, hands joined over a brass tray. Seated devotees in white clothes fold their hands in prayer behind them. Oil lamps burn on the altar, and the crowd fills the dim background.2010-02-12December 30 20092009-12-30February 11 20072007-02-11February 11 20072007-02-11February 11 20072007-02-11Night outdoor ceremony at a homa fire pit on a white-draped stage, with a fire burning on an orange-yellow brick altar. Two priests in orange robes sit behind it: the left one, bald with glasses, has palms pressed together in namaste; the right one, with long swept-back dark hair, a red-and-white forehead mark and a microphone before him, has hands folded in prayer and wears orange clothing with a rudraksha mala. Offerings of fruit, flowers, brass vessels and a flower-garlanded basket sit around the altar, and a seated audience fills the background. Probable Swamiji (long swept-back hair, orange robes, rudraksha mala, seated at the homa as the speaker).2010-02-12