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A close-up photograph of a homa fire ritual. A person seated in white ritual clothing with a gold-bordered cloth and a gold pendant holds an open book of text while reaching toward a metal stand with a tube. Before them are brick-like blocks with white markings and flames, a bowl of ghee or yellow liquid with a ladle, a bowl of grains, and two glass vessels of water with yellow kalasha-style coconuts and mango leaves set on rice. Incense sticks stand upright. No identifiable face is visible; the person is shown from the neck down.

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December 28 20112011-12-28A shaved-headed priest in white dhoti and white upper cloth with a golden-yellow border sits cross-legged on a mat during a homa. He wears a long beaded necklace of golden-brown beads and rudraksha-style beads and gold bangles, and holds a bell and a small oil lamp while reading from an open book on a stand. In front of him is a square fire pit built from yellow-orange bricks, with flames and embers burning inside. Nearby are brass dishes of turmeric, grains, bananas and flowers, a silver ritual stand, and brass pots and vessels in the background. Potted plants and vases with yellow flower bundles and banana leaves decorate the floor, beside a red-and-orange cloth canopy.2011-12-28A priest in white dhoti and shawl with gold trim sits cross-legged before a brick fire pit (homa/yagna) lit with flames, the bricks painted yellow with white markings and marigold petals scattered on them. He wears a long gold necklace, gold bangles and a shaved head with tilak markings, and holds a handheld microphone in one hand while reading from an open book. Behind him stand three kalasha pots in glass vessels topped with saffron-yellow conical mounds and green mango leaves, set on a white-sand platform. Silver bowls with grains, turmeric paste, kumkum and offerings sit at his side, and an orange cloth hangs in the background.2011-12-28January 18 20142014-01-18 +1 copiesA shaven-headed priest in white dhoti and white shawl sits cross-legged before a square homa fire pit built of ochre bricks decorated with white markings and yellow flowers. He holds a microphone stand in one hand and an open book in the other, a silver bowl of grains nearby, with a ceremonial copper-and-silver vessel and offering bowls on a tray to his left. Two decorated kalashas with yellow flowers and banana leaves sit at right beside a red-orange cloth backdrop. The scene shows a fire ritual in progress with an oil lamp at the pit's edge. No other people are visible.2011-12-28December 28 20112011-12-28December 28 20112011-12-28January 14 20182018-01-14 +1 copiesA photograph of a homa ritual at an indoor pujari setting. A priest in saffron-orange dhoti and matching shawl, wearing a rudraksha-style beaded mala and gold necklace, sits cross-legged before a square yellow-rimmed fire pit (kunda) and reads from open books while speaking into a microphone. He pours from a brass bowl into the pit. Around him, brass plates hold bananas, mangoes, flowers, coconut and sticks. Brass oil lamps burn, and on the right are cones of turmeric-yellow ritual offerings in netting on banana leaves. Two seated men in white with orange shawls sit to the left, and a few more people are partly visible at the top and right. A portrait-style presentation is not shown.2012-10-18December 28 20112011-12-28Two priests sit cross-legged before a square fire pit lined with orange powder and red petals, where a flame burns. The priest on the left wears a tall black and gold patterned hat and a white dhoti, holding a ladle over a copper bowl. The priest on the right wears a light cream turban, a white cloth over his shoulder and a beaded rudraksha-style mala, reading from an open book at a microphone stand. Both wear white flower garlands with red blooms. Fruit, bananas, a plate of sweets and a brass lamp sit on banana leaves nearby, with gold-ornate furniture and an orange-robed figure in the background. This depicts a homa or yagna ritual.2012-05-02A photograph of a ceremonial homa-style ritual in a large hall with white-covered chairs and red-draped tables. In the foreground, a shirtless man with a rudraksha mala and gold chain sits beside a silver-framed ornate throne decorated with yellow and red garlands. A brass plate holds offerings, and a fire burns in a wooden fire pit ringed with flower garlands and kalasha pots wrapped in cloth. Other priests in white dhotis and orange garments sit or move in the background, and a man in an orange shirt and white dhoti walks at right. The silver throne is empty of any visible occupant. Yellow and red flowers, brass vessels and scattered petals fill the floor.2018-01-06