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A photograph of a temple ritual centred on a silver tray holding several yellow-wrapped coconuts with green leaves and fresh pink flowers, arranged around white and pink cloth-wrapped bases. A person's hand, wearing a gold bangle and holding a small silver lamp (kalasha-style aarti vessel) with a bright flame, performs a deeparadhana-style offering. The person wears a rust-brown sari with a gold border and a beaded necklace, and only the hand, arm, bare feet and lower body are visible. Silver bowls, a covered silver container and a banana leaf lie nearby on a striped cloth.

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A photograph of a puja setup on a silver tray: several yellow kalasha-style pots wrapped with white and purple-striped cloth, topped with mango-leaf bunches and straw-bound stems, with pink flower petals scattered around. A hand in a rust-red garment holds a brass oil lamp with a bright flame, and a steel bowl of pink petals sits at right on a stone ledge. No people are fully visible beyond the hand and red-clad arm, and no clear figure is shown, so the a person field is none.2018-05-29April 11 20182018-04-11 +1 copiesApril 04 20182018-04-04 +1 copiesApril 26 20182018-04-26April 26 20182018-04-26 +1 copiesClose view of a temple ritual with a person in a rust-red garment and a heavy white beaded necklace. Their hand holds a yellow turmeric-coated coconut above a row of three silver pots wrapped in white cloth with purple stripes. The pots are decorated with mango leaves, pink flowers and grass tied at their tops. Yellow turmeric blocks, fruit and white rice sit on a plate to the left, with a colourful striped mat behind. Only the lower body and hands of the person are visible, so no face is shown. The scene suggests kalasha puja offerings in a temple setting.2018-04-26 +1 copiesApril 04 20182018-04-04June 04 20182018-06-04October 08 20172017-10-08A photograph of a ritual lamp ceremony. A person in orange-saffron robes with a red-beaded bracelet and beaded necklace kneels at a low wooden table, both hands near a polished silver multi-flame aarti lamp with five lit wicks and ornate handle, set on a silver tray. Nearby stand small silver bowls with yellow powder, a silver kalasha-style pot with green leaves and a red-and-white flower, scattered rose petals, and a small oil lamp in a woven basket at left. Smoke and warm flame light fill the frame. The aarti lamp is performed as part of the ritual; no other people are visible.2015-04-30April 04 20182018-04-04 +1 copiesA close shot of a ritual fire being lit in a homa setting. A bare arm wearing a bangle reaches in from the right, holding a silver-toned ladle-like vessel with a tall flame above it. Before a green silk-draped altar are two yellow-orange fruit or vegetable offerings wrapped with white jasmine garlands and set in glass vessels. A rectangular metal tray holds burning wood sticks. A brass oil lamp with a lit wick stands at right, and a small brass deity figure is visible on its top. Green and red cloth and brass vessels are visible at the edges.2012-07-11