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Photograph of a homa fire ceremony at night. In the foreground an orange fire blazes beside a shallow fire pit. Behind it, a crowd of men sits closely packed on the floor, many bare-chested with rudraksha malas and white dhotis, some with sacred ash marks on their foreheads. A bearded man in glasses and white dhoti sits with arms folded. Several participants have their hands folded in prayer. Behind them, other seated devotees and an older man in glasses are visible. Nobody in the frame is clearly identifiable as a person by the visible cues, so no candidate is marked.

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