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A homa fire ritual in a whitewashed hall with a corrugated roof. A central figure in an orange robe with long, dark, swept-back hair holds a flaming ladle over a white brick fire pit (kund) decorated with purple and red flowers. Around the pit, several people in white dhotis or shirts and orange shawls sit or kneel, some with folded hands. Orange cloth hangs over a window, a brass lamp stands at right, and a deity murti draped in orange and yellow garlands sits at the far right. Visible people: about seven. Whether the central figure is a person cannot be confirmed from appearance.

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