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A homa fire ritual at night on a stone-floored platform. A woman in an orange sari with a gold border leans forward and pours an offering from a silver plate into a rectangular fire pit with a bright flame. Nearby, a microphone is set beside the fire pit, with a bowl of fruit and small brass lamps arranged on a banana-leaf setting. Behind her, a seated audience in orange and white clothing watches and some people sit with hands folded in prayer. On the right, a shaven-headed man in white dhoti and shawl stands beside a deity murti draped in flower garlands and a green-covered altar. Two men are visible at the top, one with a video camera. Roughly ten to fifteen people are visible.

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A homa fire pit burns on the floor at night as a woman in an orange sari with gold border stands bent forward, holding a silver plate of offerings toward the flames. Behind her a seated crowd in orange and white watches, some with hands folded in prayer. On the right, a man in white dhoti with gold border and a shaved head films with a camera, beside a deity murti draped in flower garlands. Fruit, yellow sweets and a green cloth-covered altar sit in the foreground, with a microphone stand near the fire.2012-07-11July 11 20122012-07-11Night outdoor ritual on a raised white platform decorated with garlands of white jasmine and orange marigolds. A central yellow-brick fire pit holds a bright flame, with brass plates of fruit, flowers and offerings arranged on the left. A man with long dark hair, orange-saffron robes, a rudraksha-style mala necklace and a forehead tilak sits cross-legged with palms joined in namaskar in front of the fire, a microphone on a stand beside him. A second robed figure in orange sits nearby, and a man in orange at the right edge handles the microphone. Behind, a large crowd of devotees in white clothes sits in rows with hands folded, under dark night sky and yellow lights. The visible cues are a homa-style fire with offerings and a presenter seated before it, not a specific event.2010-02-12July 11 20122012-07-11Night-time homa at an outdoor fire pit lined with red brick and strewn with yellow flower petals. A bald man in a saffron-orange dhoti and shawl, with a shaved head, tripundra markings and a beaded necklace, stands bent forward holding a brass bowl at the edge of the flames. Beside him a seated priest in white dhoti and shawl, with a shaved head and sandalwood markings, sits on a mat with a brass vessel and banana leaves. A tall brass oil lamp stands by the fire. Behind them about twenty seated devotees sit on white chairs and mats in orange, maroon, yellow and white garments, some with hands in anjali, and a tripod-mounted camera stands at left.2010-12-16Night photo of an outdoor fire ritual on a raised yellow platform with a square fire pit filled with ash and surrounded by white and yellow flower garlands. A man in a flowing orange-saffron robe, with a shaved head, a beaded necklace and a long wooden staff, stands at the back holding a silver fire vessel aloft with flames rising from it. Around him, white-clad men and women sit and stand, some with hands joined, and a line of seated devotees fills the background under dim lamps. Coloured canopy umbrellas and smoke frame the scene. Other people wear white dhotis, saris and shawls, with orange stoles on some.2007-02-11June 09 20092009-06-09September 09 20132013-09-09June 09 20092009-06-09October 16 20132013-10-16June 09 20092009-06-09Night outdoor ritual homa at a square fire pit with a mound of earth at its centre, edged with white rangoli lines and marigold and rose garlands. A man in saffron-orange robes with a white tilak on his forehead sits cross-legged at the pit, holding a small paper and a ladle-like spoon, with a microphone stand beside him and a metal bowl of offerings at his side. Behind him, rows of seated devotees in white clothes face the pit amid many small oil lamps and brass vessels, with a woman in blue and a child in yellow in the foreground. The scene suggests a fire ritual with offerings and an evening gathering of worshippers.2007-02-11