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A large outdoor homa ceremony under a canopy with orange, green and red striped festoon cloth, a corrugated metal roof and banana plants framing the enclosure. Several saffron-robed priests sit on a raised platform before a fire pit sending up white smoke, with brass vessels, offerings and a small deity shrine behind them. Men and women in white clothes and yellow-edged sarees sit on white plastic chairs in rows facing the platform, with a few more seated on the ground at the front. A sign reading Sri Anandeshwari Temple is visible above the shrine, and a framed portrait hangs on the right side of the enclosure. A man in an orange robe stands at the right edge near a garlanded structure. No figure is clearly identifiable as a person.

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