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May 01 20152015-05-01May 01 20152015-05-01May 01 20152015-05-01May 01 20152015-05-01Outdoor homa at a village temple: a square brick fire pit with burning wood sticks and offerings of red kumkum and flowers around its edges. Priests in white dhotis, one with a bare chest, stand at the left, one carrying a tray with a blue cloth. Behind the fire, a crowd of devotees watches, including women in saris of blue, yellow, pink and orange, men in white shirts and dhotis, and several children. A brass plate and a bundle of firewood lie in the foreground. A canopy with striped fabric and a tree shade the scene.2015-05-01July 19 20132013-07-19A square stone homa fire pit with burning logs and smoke is the main subject, with young boys and men in orange and red robes and white sacred ash markings tending the fire. A young man in white dhoti and a tall beige headwrap, with rudraksha mala beads, pours offerings from a steel bowl into the flames. Other ritual attendants in orange and red sit beside silver bowls, yellow marigold flowers and fruit offerings. Behind them a seated audience in white and colourful clothing watches the ritual under a red-roofed shelter. No identifiable a person candidate with compatible cues is clearly visible.2013-09-09May 01 20152015-05-01A Vedic Rudra homa is underway outdoors before a large seated gathering. In the centre, a bare-chested priest with a saffron-and-white turban and a green-and-gold sash pours an offering from a small vessel into a brick fire pit where flames rise high. Beside him, another bare-chested priest in white dhoti with a pink-and-purple shawl holds his hands together in prayer. At right stands a young assistant in an orange-brown shawl and rudraksha mala beside an ornately decorated altar with carved figures and flower garlands. Brass lamps, offering bowls and baskets of grains sit on the ground. Behind them, rows of devotees in white with red shawls sit or stand, many with palms joined.2016-07-02 +1 copiesFebruary 02 20072007-02-02July 19 20132013-07-19July 17 20152015-07-17