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Night ritual photograph of several brass kalasha pots topped with yellow coconuts wrapped in green leaves and tied with string, arranged on a raised platform over a floor scattered with grains and blue-chalked patterns. In the foreground a seated priest in a maroon garment wears a rudraksha-style bead necklace with a white ornament. Behind, seated participants in white and orange-red robes, and a man in white with a cloth on his head, sit in rows while onlookers in white stand in the dark background. The pots show decorative beadwork and cloth wraps, consistent with a puja or homa setting.

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November 19 20132013-11-19Outdoor ritual arrangement of several golden kalasha pots, each topped with a yellow-tinted coconut and a bunch of green mango leaves, set on a bed of grains with blue rangoli-style markings. Pots are wrapped in purple, maroon, green, blue and red silk cloths with garlands and beaded necklaces. A white-garbed priest with a white head wrap and rudraksha mala sits at the left edge, partly visible.2013-11-19December 20 20132013-12-20 +1 copiesDecember 23 20092009-12-23June 14 20142014-06-14October 18 20122012-10-18 +1 copiesOctober 18 20122012-10-18 +1 copiesPhoto 11733184 +1 copiesAugust 21 20142014-08-21Women sit in a row on a red patterned carpet performing a Varalakshmi Vratam puja. In front of them are several red and gold brocade-wrapped kalasha pots, each topped with a yellow coconut and green leaves, set on wooden platforms over leopard-print cloths. Brass plates hold bananas, rose petals, flowers and brass cups, and the women reach forward with their hands to offer items. The women wear saris and kurtas in white, yellow, red and lavender.2019-08-09A photograph of a ritual offering being prepared at a stone platform. Several yellow coconuts wrapped in straw and tied with straw bands sit on a grey stone tray with green leaves and blue-and-white checked cloths, scattered with pink petals. At right, a person in a rust-orange garment with white ash markings on the arms lights a small oil lamp on a metal stand, with a silver vessel nearby. Carved dark stone pillars and a patterned mat frame the scene.2018-04-20Night-time outdoor ritual before a golden deity murti garlanded with yellow and white flowers. A shaved-headed young priest in orange dhoti and orange shawl, with beaded necklace, stands at a table draped in red cloth and heaped with yellow flowers and mango-leaf kalasha-style offerings, handling a ritual vessel. A second shaved-headed devotee in orange sits in the foreground by a homa fire pit lined with yellow and red petals, flames rising from it. A seated figure in orange-brown robes sits on an ornate red and gold throne at right, with others in orange and white clothing and a drum set in the background. The setting is a temporary open-air mandap under a corrugated roof.2013-09-30