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Night outdoor homa at the Sri Anandeshwara temple on the Bidadi campus. A bright fire flares at left, sending sparks and smoke up under a corrugated roof hung with colourful decorative tassels. Many people in white ritual clothes sit on the ground facing the fire, while a woman in a white sari with a patterned border and a younger person in white walk through the foreground. Women in green and yellow saris sit on white plastic chairs at lower right. Behind them, orange temple walls bear the sign for Sri Anandeshwara, and priests in white sit before an altar with offerings, lamps and a decorated seat. A tall orange-clad figure stands near the temple entrance.

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