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A priest sits cross-legged before a brick-built fire pit where a bright flame burns on a bed of yellow-dusted offerings with marigold petals and red flowers. He has white ash markings on his bare chest and arms, wears a saffron-orange dhoti, a pink shawl, rudraksha mala beads and glasses, and holds a silver ladle-like vessel over the fire. Behind him, other robed participants sit near a microphone stand, and floral garlands hang on the right, with a silver kalasha-style pot in the foreground. This is a homa fire ritual.

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