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A photograph of a seated priest in white dhoti and shawl with a red border, wearing a gold necklace, speaking into a microphone while gesturing over a homa fire with flames at right. Behind him are deity murtis of a deity with a spear and peacock-style crown and consort figures, decorated with garlands of yellow, white, purple, red and green flowers. A red cloth covers the altar. In front are steel bowls of rice dishes, sweets, a yellow ganesha figure and fruit. A portrait statue in orange robes and a turban stands in the background, a separate figure not counted as a physical person.

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A young man with a shaved head sits cross-legged on a white cloth in front of a fire pit and a deity altar. He wears a white dhoti with a red border, a gold necklace and a gold bangle, and holds an orange offering in one hand while speaking into a microphone on a stand. Behind him, two deity murtis are decorated with garlands of red, orange, yellow and purple flowers. A flaming brass oil lamp and a bright fire pit burn beside him. On the foreground table are offering plates with red-orange laddus, sliced fruit, betel leaves, a bowl of yellow rice, and a mound of white rice and sweets, with silver vessels and a kalasha nearby. This appears to be a homa or puja ritual.2010-11-12A shaved-headed priest in white dhoti and shawl with a red border sits cross-legged on a red-carpeted floor, holding a microphone while performing a homa beside a lit fire pit. Behind him, a decorated deity murti of a standing figure with a tall crown is framed by garlands in red, pink, yellow and purple flowers and two smaller attendant figures. A red cloth covers the altar platform, with brass oil lamps and a kalasha-like vessel nearby. Plates of fruit, rice, sweets and flower offerings fill the foreground, and a figure in orange robes appears on a decorated throne in the upper background.2010-11-12 +1 copiesA homa or fire ritual before a shrine of three deity murti decorated with garlands in red, green, purple and white. The central figure wears a crown, and flanking figures are adorned with crowns and red-and-gold garments. A man seated on the left, bare-chested with a white dhoti and a beaded necklace, faces the shrine beside a small flame in a fire pit. Brass oil lamps, a microphone stand, and metal bowls of grains, pulses, sweets and yellow powder sit on a red cloth in front.2010-11-12November 12 20102010-11-12November 12 20102010-11-12 +1 copiesA priest with a shaved head, wearing a white dhoti and a white shawl with a red border, sits cross-legged on a red mat before a fire pit where a flame burns. He is pouring from a small bowl and tends a microphone on a stand. Behind him, a bank of flower garlands in red, yellow, orange and purple frames three deity murtis: a central figure with a crown and a long garland and two flanking figures in ornate gold and red garments. Above them, a figure in orange robes sits on a golden throne, a distinct rudraksha-style presence but described only as a seated person in orange; a red cloth drapes the altar. Brass oil lamps stand at the sides, and steel bowls hold rice, yellow flower petals, sweets and grains in the foreground.2010-11-12November 12 20102010-11-12 +1 copiesA seated priest in white dhoti and shawl with red border pours an offering into a sacred fire on a wooden homa platform, holding a ladle-like vessel and a red cloth-wrapped object. He wears a gold necklace and bangles. Behind him stand three garlanded deity murtis with crowns and gold ornaments, decorated with red, yellow, purple and white flower garlands, on a red cloth-draped stone platform. Brass lamps and offering bowls with sweets, rice and fruit surround the fire, and a red-clad figure appears in the background. The scene reads as a homa or puja ritual.2010-11-12November 12 20102010-11-12A priest in a white dhoti with a red border sits cross-legged on the floor, bare-chested, performing puja before three deity murtis adorned with garlands of red, orange, yellow and purple flowers. The central figure is a standing murti with a crown; flanking murtis wear crowns and jewellery. Behind them is a red-orange draped platform. Brass oil lamps stand at the sides, and steel bowls of rice, yellow powder, sweets, flowers, fruit and grains are arranged on a red cloth in front. Behind the deities, a golden shrine holds a seated figure in orange robes, with a large lamp-like brass structure above.2010-11-12November 12 20102010-11-12November 12 20102010-11-12