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Outdoor homa ritual on a brick-paved courtyard in front of white multi-storey buildings. Two priests in white dhotis sit on low wooden seats, one bare-chested with a red-bordered cloth, the other in an orange-bordered shawl, facing a fire pit with flames and smoke. A standing man in a white dhoti and bare chest bends forward, offering a garland of white and yellow flowers toward the fire. Behind them a bald man in orange stands near a blue canopy. Seated devotees in white clothes with orange and red shawls line the back row, and a woman in a white headscarf sits among them. Brass kalasha vessels, offering plates with fruit, a golden lion figure, a tall brass staff and garlanded ornaments frame the scene, and a video camera on a tripod records the ceremony. Nithya-Satsang Homa.

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