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A woman with dark hair sits cross-legged with eyes closed and hands folded in her lap on a woven mat, inside a circle of smouldering dark logs with small flames along its rim. She wears a white top and white trousers with an orange shawl draped over her shoulders. A terracotta bowl sits beside her on the bare ground. Two other circles of burning logs are visible behind, and people in white clothes stand at the edges, one holding a stick. The scene is outdoors on dry sandy earth.

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August 17 20062006-08-17A woman sits cross-legged with eyes closed at the centre of a circular ring of dark charred logs on bare orange earth, forming a fire pit for a homa. She wears a white cloth with an orange shawl draped over her shoulders and holds a small clay bowl. Smoke rises around her, and other fire rings with white-clad participants are visible in the background.2006-08-17A young woman in white ritual clothes with a yellow-edged border sits cross-legged on bare red earth inside a circular ring of burning wood logs, hands folded in her lap, eyes lowered in meditation. A wooden ladle or ritual spoon lies beside her on the ground, and a dark mala of beads hangs at her neck over a black waist sash. Behind her a short section of brick wall, a parked silver SUV and a small concrete planter sit in the open ashram yard. The flames and fire ring suggest a ritual fire practice, though no specific rite is clearly visible.2006-08-17August 17 20062006-08-17Outdoor scene on bare sandy ground showing a young woman seated cross-legged in white clothes with an orange shawl, hands resting in her lap, in the centre of a circular ring of burning logs with flames rising along its edge. A small bowl sits beside her on a mat. Behind her, another woman in white sits at a second fire ring, and a man in orange robes walks past in the background. A small table with cloth and a microphone stand appear at the far left. This appears to be a fire-ring practice from a training event, with no clearly identifiable a person figure visible.2006-08-17Outdoor fire ritual on reddish earth at a monastic training site. A young man in white dhoti and white kurta with an orange shawl sits cross-legged with palms joined, eyes lowered, in front of a circular ring of logs and stones with small flames burning along its edge. A clay dish holds a lump of ash or offering beside him. Behind him, another seated man in white with a rudraksha-style neck mala watches a second circle, and more people in white and orange garments sit at other fire rings. The scene reads as a homa or yagna practice during a monastic training gathering.2006-08-17A photograph of a monastic training practice on bare ground at AadiKailaasa. A seated person in white clothing with an orange shawl sits cross-legged on a woven mat inside a ring of burning logs, eyes closed, with a small copper bowl beside them and smoke rising around. Another practitioner in white with an orange shawl sits in a similar log ring behind, and a third ring with fire is visible at the right edge. The scene suggests a fire-based meditation or homa-style practice. No identifiable a person appearance is clearly visible, so the seated practitioner is described by role only.2006-08-17Outdoor ritual on bare reddish earth at a training convention. Several circular fire rings made of dung cakes and wooden sticks burn with open flames around their edges. A woman in white draped clothing sits cross-legged with palms pressed together inside the foreground ring, with a small brass vessel beside her. Behind her, other seated participants in white and one person in an orange-brown wrap stand or sit among more fire rings, with a smoky haze in the background. A man in white with a white cloth over his shoulder kneels at the far right. Canopies and a speaker sit in the background.2006-08-17A photograph of a single seated woman meditating at the centre of a ring of burning logs and dung cakes on bare sandy ground outdoors. She wears a white garment with a yellow border and an orange shawl draped over her shoulders, and has a forehead mark and hair pulled back. Small flames flicker along the ring, and a clay bowl sits beside her on the ground. Green grass and a pipe stand appear at the upper left. No portrait or a person candidate is visible.2006-08-17August 17 20062006-08-17August 17 20062006-08-17August 17 20062006-08-17