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Photograph of a large covered ritual hall with a bamboo-and-thatch roof and tube lights. A standing life-size figure with long dark hair, wearing an orange-saffron robe and gold-toned necklace, stands on a raised dais beside a decorated ritual altar draped with flower garlands and banana-leaf and palm-frond decorations. Plates of offerings, brass vessels, a kalasha-like pot and smoke are visible at the altar in front. Around the hall, people in white dhotis and white kurtas and women in white saris move about; a woman in white in the foreground carries a tray, and a man in a checked shirt stands nearby. Banners with Tamil text hang above, and a wheelchair user sits at the left edge. The figure on the dais is.

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July 18 20062006-07-18July 18 20062006-07-18July 17 20062006-07-17July 17 20062006-07-17A large open-sided pandal during a yajna at the Salem Sapta Yaagam event, with smoke hanging in the air and white fluorescent tubes overhead. Several people in white ritual clothes stand and sit near a decorated altar, where a white cloth is being held and banana leaves, fruit and offerings are arranged. Banners above read chakra names in Tamil, including Anahata and Ajna chakra, with small portraits and emblems. A woman in a light sari with a pink-and-yellow umbrella stands at a table in the foreground, and seated devotees fill the bottom of the frame.2006-07-18July 18 20062006-07-18July 17 20062006-07-17July 18 20062006-07-18July 17 20062006-07-17July 18 20062006-07-18A homa (fire offering) in a temporary open-sided shed with corrugated roof and bamboo supports. A seated figure in orange-saffron robes sits on a raised dais at right, with a microphone before them, while smoke rises around them. A standing man in white dhoti and white shirt with an orange-red shawl holds up a yellow, red and purple umbrella and gestures toward the dais. Several men in white dhotis and shirts, some with orange shawls, stand in a line at left, and one man stands in white at far left near a table of fruit and offerings. Banners hang above in Tamil reading 'அனாஹத சக்கரம்' (Anahata Chakra) and 'ஆக்ஞா சக்கரம்' (Ajna Chakra), with a 'விசுத்தி சக்கரம்' (Vishuddhi Chakra) banner and chakra emblems. A kalasha and bananas sit on a table near a draped white backdrop with garlands. Visible people: roughly 10 in the scene.2006-07-18A photograph of a large hall with a corrugated roof, filled with many people performing a fire ritual (homa/yajna) at multiple square brick fire pits. Woman in white clothes with a rudraksha mala kneels at the nearest pit, tending a brass vessel beside offerings on a woven mat, including plates of flowers, fruit and white powder. Other participants in white and cream clothes, and women in saris, sit or stand at neighbouring pits and move through the crowd. Palm fronds and strings of leaves hang from wooden posts, and banners with portraits and text line the walls under white fluorescent tubes. Many people are visible, with some partly hidden at the edges.2006-07-18