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A large open hall with a dirt floor during a fire-offering ritual. Many people in white dhotis and white saris kneel or bend over rows of white brick fire pits, several with small offerings on them. Tall banana-leaf and palm-frond decorations line the posts, and fluorescent tubes hang from the roof. Banners with Tamil text hang along the walls. Several figures stand near the center, one wearing a white dhoti with a gold-bordered cloth. No one is clearly identifiable as a person from appearance; the visible figures are devotees and priests performing homa at individual pits.

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A photograph of a large hall with a corrugated roof, filled with many people performing a fire ritual (homa/yajna) at multiple square brick fire pits. Woman in white clothes with a rudraksha mala kneels at the nearest pit, tending a brass vessel beside offerings on a woven mat, including plates of flowers, fruit and white powder. Other participants in white and cream clothes, and women in saris, sit or stand at neighbouring pits and move through the crowd. Palm fronds and strings of leaves hang from wooden posts, and banners with portraits and text line the walls under white fluorescent tubes. Many people are visible, with some partly hidden at the edges.2006-07-18July 16 20062006-07-16July 17 20062006-07-17A large open-sided pavilion with bamboo poles and a thatched roof holds many seated participants in white clothing during a fire ritual. Rows of people sit on mats on bare ground, many wearing white dhotis or white sarees with gold borders and rudraksha malas. 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The scene is a fire-offering ceremony with seated participants.2006-07-17A large open pavilion with a sandy floor during a fire ritual, with smoke drifting through the air. Many devotees sit in rows on the floor in white clothes, some with cloths over their shoulders, several with hands pressed together in prayer. Each person sits beside a raised white square platform holding a small fire pit or havan vessel. Tall bamboo poles with palm fronds and rows of tube lights line the hall. Banners hang along the back walls, one showing a portrait of a shaved-headed figure in white and saffron cloth beside Tamil text. Fluorescent lights overhead illuminate the scene.2006-07-17A large open-sided pandal hall with a tin roof, hanging green leaf-strings and tube lights, where many devotees in white dhotis and white shirts, some in saffron and pink saris, move among small square white-plastered fire pits (homa kunds) on a wet floor. 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