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Night-time outdoor homa or yagna at an open-air pavilion decorated with palm-leaf strings, colourful hanging tassels and a red-and-gold throne. Seated priests in white dhotis and bare upper bodies tend a fire pit with ghee and wooden offering sticks, and a bald man in a white garment and red cloth sits before the fire. On a raised red-and-gold throne at left, a figure in a blue garment and garlands is seated, with a man in white beside. Brass plates hold bundled sticks and offerings on purple and orange cloths. Devotees in white and yellow sit in rows behind, and a stone deity shrine stands at the back. Visible crowd of roughly thirty.

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