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A close photograph of a person's forearms and hands offering ripe yellow bananas at a homa. The hands hold a yellow cloth over a large cluster of bananas, while smoke drifts across the left side. The person wears a rudraksha mala bracelet, a yellow thread on the wrist and saffron-orange clothing at the right edge, with a red and green backdrop behind. Bottom caption reads Nithyanandeshwara Paramashiva Devalayam, Adi KAILASA, Navaratri 2021, Day 1 - Vishesha Dravya Homa & Chandi Homa Purnahuti.

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October 08 20212021-10-08A close photograph of a ritual offering of bananas. A cluster of yellow bananas fills the lower frame, with a dried coconut at the centre. A person's arm, wearing a red and orange sacred thread on the wrist, pours liquid from a silver vessel onto the offering. Smoke or haze drifts behind. Overlaid caption reads Nithyanandeshwara Paramashiva Devalayam, Adi KAILASA, Navaratri 2021, Day 1 - Vishesha Dravya Homa & Chandi Homa Purnahuti.2021-10-07A close photograph of a ritual offering in a temple setting. A cluster of ripe yellow bananas, with dark speckling, is heaped in the foreground. A hand wearing a rudraksha mala and a bronze vessel pours a thin stream of white liquid over the bananas, and a dried coconut sits beside them. Smoke or incense haze drifts behind, with red and green tones in the background. The scene reflects a Navaratri homa offering of fruit and liquid.2021-10-07A close-up photograph of a ritual offering. A pair of bare arms, wearing red and yellow threaded wrists, pours a thin stream of golden liquid from a metal vessel onto a heap of yellow bananas topped with a split brown coconut. Wisps of smoke drift at left against soft red and green background cloth. The caption reads Nithyanandeshwara Paramashiva Devalayam, Adi KAILASA, Navaratri 2021 Day 1 Vishesha Dravya Homa and Chandi Homa Purnahuti, consistent with a homa offering. No person's face is visible.2021-10-07A close photograph of a ritual pouring at a temple altar. A hand holding a silver-wrapped vessel pours liquid over a coconut resting on a heap of ripe yellow bananas, with drops falling in a stream. The forearm shows white ash markings and a beaded bracelet, and an orange cloth and beaded mala are visible at the right edge. Smoke or incense haze softens the background, which shows blurred flowers and a red and green altar setting. The caption identifies the setting as Nithyanandeshwara Paramashiva Devalayam, Adi KAILASA, Navaratri 2021, Day 2, Vishesha Dravya Homa. No person's face is visible, so no identification is made.2021-10-08October 07 20212021-10-07October 08 20212021-10-08A photograph of a ritual offering at a Navaratri homa. A pair of hands, one holding a silver vessel with a brown string bracelet, pours a thin stream of golden liquid over a coconut set atop a heap of yellow bananas. Smoke drifts across the frame, and the sleeve of an orange-saffron garment is visible at the right edge. Blurred flower garlands in yellow and red sit in the background. A caption reads Nithyanandeshwara Paramashiva Devalayam, Adi KAILASA, Navaratri 2021, Day 2 - Vishesha Dravya Homa. The person's face is not visible; only forearms and hands show, with white ash markings on the arm.2021-10-08A photograph of a homa offering at Navaratri in Adi KAILASA, with thick white smoke drifting across the frame. A bare-chested priest in an orange dhoti and shawl, wearing a striped yellow-and-black headwrap, sandalwood tilak on his forehead, rudraksha beads and a gold pendant, arranges a heap of yellow bananas over a pile of pineapples, green coconuts and other fruit. A small oil lamp flame glows at the upper left, and red and green cloth hangs in the background. A caption at the bottom reads Nithyanandeshwara Paramashiva Devalayam, Adi KAILASA, Navaratri 2021, Day 1 - Vishesha Dravya Homa and Chandi Homa Purnahuti.2021-10-07A close photograph of a homa ritual: a priest's hands, one wearing a rudraksha bracelet, pour from a metal vessel onto a large heap of yellow bananas, with smoke drifting through the frame. Orange-robed clothing is visible at the edge. The caption at the bottom reads Nithyanandeshwara Paramashiva Devalayam, Adi KAILASA, Navaratri 2021 Day 1 Vishesha Dravya Homa and Chandi Homa Purnahuti.2021-10-07A close photograph of a bunch of ripe yellow bananas heaped in the foreground, with a brown dried coconut resting among them. A bare forearm and hand of a priest, sleeved in a plain dark garment at the right edge, pour water from a silver vessel over the fruit in a steady stream, with smoke or steam rising behind. The setting is a temple ritual, a Navaratri Vishesha Dravya Homa offering at Nithyanandeshwara Paramashiva Devalayam, Adi KAILASA. Only the pouring hand and arm are visible, so no full figure can be identified.2021-10-09October 09 20212021-10-09