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Indoor home puja with a group seated on the floor before a low pink-painted square altar bearing a green coconut with garland, a brass pot and lit oil lamps. Trays of bananas, oranges, limes, flowers, yellow marigolds and bowls of food are arranged in front. A man in white dhoti and shawl sits with hands folded in prayer beside a woman in a purple sari with orange border, also praying. Other seated family members include a man in red, a woman in pink sari, and children in white, blue and red clothing. A television and cabinet stand against the wall behind them.

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A small living room where a group of devotees sits on a floral-patterned mat for a home satsang or puja. A shaved-headed man in white dhoti and shawl with gold border sits at right, wearing a rudraksha mala, beside a tray with brass lamps, a plate, flowers and small offerings on a green cloth. Several women in saris (orange, maroon, teal, blue) and children sit with palms pressed together, while a young man in a blue shirt and another in white sit in front, facing the altar. A television and speakers stand on a shelf behind them.2011-09-08July 08 20142014-07-08November 06 20112011-11-062008 - KAILASA in Hyderabad - Sripura SarvajnapeethamNovember 06 20112011-11-06June 26 20142014-06-262008 - KAILASA in Hyderabad - Sripura SarvajnapeethamJuly 07 20142014-07-07 +1 copies2008 - KAILASA in Hyderabad - Sripura SarvajnapeethamA homa fire burns in a square brick fire pit set on an orange cloth in an indoor hall. A priest in white dhoti and shawl, wearing a gold-beaded necklace and a red-orange sash, sits behind the fire with one arm extended over it and a microphone nearby. A younger priest in orange cloth sits at the upper right. Seated before the fire are a woman in an orange and green sari and several people in white clothes, including a man with a rudraksha-style mala, with hands folded. Steel pots with lids, plates of puffed bread, bowls of fruit and flower garlands surround the scene.2011-11-06A photograph of a devotional puja inside a room with a white cloth on the floor. Several seated devotees with palms pressed together face a framed portrait on the right, garlanded with white and pink flowers. The portrait shows a smiling figure in saffron-orange robes and a rudraksha-style bead necklace, seated before a tree trunk, though the portrait is a printed picture, not a physical person. In the foreground a man in an orange kurta kneels with folded hands, and a woman in a maroon and cream sari sits with her back to the camera, wearing a dark bead mala. Offerings on the cloth include bananas, fruit, a lit oil lamp, flower petals, a kalasha-like brass vessel, kumkum and incense sticks. Around six people are visible, mostly women in cream and blue saris, plus men in white shirts seated at the back.2009-08-20A photograph of a padapuja ritual inside a home living room with beige sofas and a white pillar. A reclining figure in orange and red drapes, with a red and yellow flower garland and rudraksha beads, has hands folded in prayer and bare feet extended toward a brass tray of offerings. Before him a man in a white shirt and an uniformed shirtless attendant in white dhoti with rudraksha mala lead the worship, a lit oil lamp held by a man in white dhoti with rudraksha beads. Around them devotees in saris and kurtas stand or kneel with palms joined, including a woman in a pink-and-cream sari and a young girl in red. Flowers and marigolds rest on the floor beside the lamp.2014-07-07 +1 copies