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A ritual scene beside a stone platform where a fire burns in the foreground. A priest wearing a white dhoti with a gold-bordered edge stands at left, one hand extended over the platform. On the platform, a red-draped object is adorned with white jasmine and red and pink flower garlands, surrounded by scattered petals, whole green coconuts with one broken open, bananas, and small oranges on a silver tray. A brass oil lamp with a lit flame sits at right beside an ornate gold-framed altar, and a decorated kalasha-like vessel with red and white embellishments stands behind the offering. No people are seated or visible beyond the priest.

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Photograph of a ritual offering arranged on a stone floor. A person in a white dhoti-style garment with a gold border reaches toward a decorated rangoli-like floral design in purple outline, green, yellow and white. Offerings include coconut halves, whole green fruits, sliced banana, and loose white and red flowers scattered across the floor. A large vessel wrapped in red cloth and heavy garlands of white jasmine and pink flowers stands to the right, with an oil lamp and a brass lamp nearby. In the foreground, fire flames rise from a homa or lamp fire. No a person candidate is visible.2015-11-28 +1 copiesA ritual homa scene with a visible fire burning in a brass fire pit in the foreground. Behind it, three kalasha pots topped with yellow coconut-like finials and green leaves stand on a white cloth, each decorated with red and white flower garlands and a red-berry garland on the central pot. Behind them hang green and red drapes with yellow and white marigold garlands. No people are clearly visible; only a hand holding a ritual implement appears at the left edge.2013-05-13A ritual fire ceremony at dusk. A person in an orange-yellow garment reaches toward a brass lamp with a large flame, beside a homa-style fire pit built of stacked red bricks. Flower garlands in red, yellow, white and purple drape a folded textile and a golden ornamental frame. Brass vessels with lids, a small oil lamp, bananas, mangoes and other fruit sit on a striped woven mat. Behind the altar stands a figure in saffron-coloured cloth beside a golden decorative arch, and a partially visible deity murti.2016-03-06 +1 copiesA photograph of a puja at an ornate golden throne draped in orange cloth and heavily garlanded with white jasmine, red roses and yellow marigolds. A bare-chested priest in white dhoti with an orange border holds a silver lamp with a flame over the offerings. Silver lamps, a brass pot, bananas, coconut halves and a plate of flower petals sit on a striped rug. The page is about a Vishesha Deeksha homa, but no a person candidate is visible, and the throne is empty of a seated figure. Other white-clad people stand in the background.2017-03-16March 06 20162016-03-06 +1 copiesMarch 05 20162016-03-05 +1 copiesJune 23 20172017-06-23 +1 copiesA puja scene at a ritual site. A priest in white dhoti with a yellow-orange border reaches with his right hand to a silver camphor lamp burning with a flame, held over an ornate altar. The altar is draped in a deity's garment or decorated figure covered with beaded gold embroidery and rows of white jasmine garlands and red and yellow marigold garlands. Below, silver bowls hold rose petals, bananas, grapes, coconut halves and a covered silver vessel, with small oil lamps lit beside them. The floor is covered with colourful striped woven mats in pink, blue, green and orange. Another person in white sits at the back, partly visible.2017-03-16March 16 20172017-03-16October 18 20152015-10-18A photograph of a temple homa at night. On the left, a priest with a purple turban and a bare chest, wearing a blue bead necklace and white dhoti with dark border, holds a brass lamp. Beside him, a second priest in a white dhoti and white shawl holds a bundle of incense sticks near a sacred fire blazing in a white stone fire pit. A red-brown cloth covers a decorated palanquin or ratha-like platform heaped with yellow and red garlands, white jasmine strands, and green leaves. Bananas, coconuts, fruit and a brass bowl sit on the platform's base, with rose petals scattered on the stone. Smoke fills the air. Gold-framed niches hold deity murtis. a person is not clearly visible.2013-07-17July 17 20132013-07-17