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Outdoor ritual at an open sandy ground. A man with long dark hair, wearing a saffron-orange draped robe and bare feet, walks while holding a dark wooden staff in his right hand. Around him, many participants sit cross-legged in white clothing inside circular rings of smouldering firewood, forming a fire-ritual arrangement. Some seated figures wear saffron cloth. Behind them stands a low wall with red and white stripes, and dense green trees, with smoke rising in the background.

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August 18 20062006-08-18August 18 20062006-08-18August 18 20062006-08-18August 18 20062006-08-18August 18 20062006-08-18Outdoor photograph of a monastic training convention at an open sandy ground with palm trees and smoke rising. Behind him a woman in a white sari with an orange sash stands near a small brick-and-red-cloth offering. Around the ground, many people in white clothes and orange sashes sit cross-legged beside rectangular fire pits with blackened ash, some with sashes draped over the shoulders. Several men in white sit or stand at the left edge near steps.2006-08-18Outdoors on bare sandy ground, several young men in white dhotis and orange shawls sit cross-legged inside circular fire pits edged with burning wood logs, with smoke rising across the scene. In the foreground a seated young man in white with an orange shawl sits beside a small clay bowl of offerings, while a standing man in an orange dhoti and shawl, barefoot and with long dark hair, tends the fire with a long iron rod. Behind them more participants in white and orange sit around other fire rings, with a tin-roofed building and palm trees in the background.2006-08-17August 18 20062006-08-18Outdoor training scene on bare earth at an ashram ground. Many participants sit cross-legged in white clothes inside circular rings of stones or wood with small lit oil lamps at the edges, some with orange shawls. A standing figure in a long orange robe, with long dark hair and bare feet, holds a stick over a seated student in white and orange at the front, while a few people in white and orange sit in the background near a brick stack and a parked car. The scene reads as a ritual or training exercise in fire-ring style circles.2006-08-17August 17 20062006-08-17Outdoor photograph of a homa or fire-ritual session on bare sandy ground at an ashram, with multiple circular fire pits of burnt sticks arranged across the yard. Several seated participants in white clothes with orange sashes sit around the pits, some with long braided hair. A standing woman in an orange robe stands centre-left, and a figure in white robes kneels near the centre. Smoke rises amid green trees, with a red-and-white striped boundary wall and a white cloth canopy behind. No figure is confidently identifiable as a person from appearance cues.2006-08-18Outdoor ritual scene at an ashram ground with a sandy floor and smoke rising from several ring-shaped fire pits covered in charred wood. Many seated participants wear white dhotis and white shirts, while one seated figure in the foreground wears a saffron/orange robe and sits inside a fire ring. A standing man in a white shirt and white dhoti walks at left, and another man in white dhoti and white top stands at right holding a long stick. A red and white striped wall and dense green trees form the background, consistent with a homa or yagna gathering.2006-08-18