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Outdoor ceremony on stone steps beside a river under a heavy stormy sky. In the foreground, seated devotees sit on orange cloths around brass vessels and a small green-draped altar with a deity murti. A woman in orange robes and a rudraksha mala on the right tends the offerings, holding a brass dish. Behind them, a large crowd sits and stands on terraced stone steps watching the ritual, with a stage platform and microphone stand on the right. A man in white near the centre sits with hands folded.

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Outdoor evening gathering on a stone-terraced ghat under a dark stormy sky, with a large crowd seated on the stepped rocky slopes and along the foreground platform. In the lower right, a person in saffron-orange robes sits cross-legged on an orange cloth facing the audience, with a microphone stand beside them, a brass kalasha-style vessel and metal lamps and a tray of offerings in front. Several other people in orange and white clothing sit on the platform. Seated foreground devotees wear white, pink, red and green clothes, and some hold their hands together in prayer. Brass lamps and pots sit on the orange-covered platform, and a small stall stands on the hill at upper left.2008-06-28Outdoor fire ritual on red sandstone steps beside a river, with a sacred fire burning in a central pit. Several people in saffron-orange robes sit on orange cloths facing the fire; one woman in orange leads the ritual near a microphone stand, and others in white or orange assist. Brass kalasha pots and metal vessels, offering plates with flowers and fruit, and a small brass lamp stand sit in front. Around them a large seated crowd in white, orange, red and blue clothing fills the steps, many holding offering bowls, while a crowd of onlookers stands on the rocky embankment above. A figure in orange stands at left on the slope. The scene reads as a homa with devotees gathered for the fire offering.2008-06-28Outdoor photo of a riverside ghat stage where an orange-clad priest and a second orange-robed figure sit cross-legged on orange cloth beside a small fire pit with visible flames, a brass kalasha-style vessels and a bronze deity murti on a wooden stand in the foreground. Several devotees in white and orange sit with folded hands, and a seated crowd of a few dozen people fills a stone embankment behind, some standing on the slope. A microphone stand stands near the fire, and brass pots sit at the lower right. The scene resembles a homa or puja being performed in the open air.2008-06-28Outdoor riverside ghat ceremony under a heavy overcast sky. Stone-tiered steps are crowded with seated and standing devotees, many in white and orange clothing, with a few wearing red and green. In the foreground, a woman in orange robes stands at a small raised brass-and-wood altar holding a lamp over a green-clad deity murti, with brass vessels, a kalasha and offerings on orange cloth. Seated participants in front, including a man in a grey shirt and a woman in a pink shawl, have their hands folded in prayer. A microphone stand and speaker stand near the altar. Looks like an aarti or puja at the river.2008-06-28January 22 20082008-01-22Outdoor photograph of a riverside ritual at Rishikesh on a stone terrace. In the foreground, participants sit in a row on an orange cloth and blue mat before a fire pit with flames, beside a green-robed deity murti on a brass stand, a brass vessel, marigold offerings and a kalasha-like pot. Behind them, a large seated crowd in white, red, pink and green clothes watches from stone steps above the river. A woman in a white head covering in the foreground holds a small object. No clearly visible candidate for a person can be confidently identified from appearance, so the figures are described by role only.2008-06-28Outdoor riverside ritual on a pink-tiled platform above a river at Rishikesh, under a dark overcast sky with forested hills behind. A central group sits on an orange cloth before brass pots, lamps, a small fire tray and flower petals. Two figures in orange robes with orange shawls and rudraksha malas sit at the centre, one with hands folded in prayer. Around them rows of seated devotees in white and orange clothes, some with prayer beads, kneel or sit with hands joined. A standing man in a white robe and orange shawl stands at the right edge, and onlookers and children watch from the stone embankment behind. Whether any central figure is the a person candidate is not clear from appearance alone.2008-06-28Outdoor riverside ritual on a raised pink stone platform under a heavy grey sky, with green forested hills behind. In the foreground a large golden trident stands beside brass vessels and a fruit offering. A group of people sit on bright orange cloths around a low wooden altar with a small fire or lamp, brass pots and offerings. A man in orange robe and orange shawl stands at the centre-back with hands together, while a man in white kurta and orange shawl sits at the altar and a woman in orange sari sits beside it. Western-looking devotees in white and red clothing sit on the left, and a crowd of spectators sits on stone steps up the slope, some wearing white and saffron. A microphone stand stands at the right edge.2008-06-28Outdoor ritual on a stone ghat beside a river, with a fire pit at centre where a seated priest in orange robes performs a homa while holding a ladle over the flames. Several saffron-clad assistants sit on orange cloths around him, and brass kalashas, bowls and a small green-clad deity murti sit on a wooden stand in front. Seated devotees in white and mixed colours fold their hands in prayer on the steps, and a large crowd sits on stone embankments behind them under a cloudy sky. A microphone stand stands near the fire.2008-06-28January 22 20082008-01-22A photograph of a riverside outdoor ritual on a stone-embankment bank. Rows of seated devotees sit on a pale cloth, many holding small plates or leaf dishes with offerings. Many wear orange or saffron tops, some wear white, and several have red, orange and rudraksha-style malas around their necks. A bald man in white with a purple mala sits in the foreground near brass kalasha-style vessels and fruit. Behind them, a few people stand and walk on stone steps and a grassy slope. The scene suggests a group puja or satsang at the water's edge.2008-06-28May 22 20062006-05-22