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Close outdoor evening photo of women in white devotional clothes performing an aarti with a brass oil lamp holding a large open flame. The central woman in a white shawl and glasses raises both palms toward the flame, while a woman on the left holds the lamp's ornate stand. Sacred ash marks on foreheads, red wristbands and bangles are visible. Behind them, more seated devotees in white and orange garments are gathered, and a rising wisp of smoke drifts above. The setting appears to be a satsang or ceremony.

Overhead photo of a dim outdoor ritual at night. A bowl of burning camphor or ghee flame sits on the stone floor, with a woman in an orange sari bending over it and extending her hand toward the fire. Behind her stand women in orange saris, and at the left a person in white dhoti sits beside a small stone deity murti. Oil lamps glow in the background, and a brass plate holds bananas, green leaves, coconut halves and flowers. At the lower right, two people wrapped in white cloth with orange and gold borders lie prone on the ground. No figure is clearly identifiable as a person.

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Close-up photo of a fire ritual in progress. A person in white dhoti and white shawl with gold border sits cross-legged; their hands hold a shallow brass plate with offerings toward a visible flame at lower left. A long metal rod or ladle stands beside the fire. A second seated figure in white with a large beaded mala of amber-gold beads is partly visible at upper center. Setting is a homa or yagna with sacred fire, consistent with a Hindu ritual. No face is visible.

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A photograph of a group of devotees seated on red floor mats during a ritual, many holding small lit oil lamps. In the foreground, a woman with grey hair and a white forehead mark wears an orange sari with yellow border and a rudraksha mala, holding a brass plate with flowers and a lamp toward the viewer. Beside her, a woman in an orange sari with a rudraksha mala sits with a plate of offerings. Behind them, women and men in white clothes, some with red shawls, and a girl in a maroon top hold lamps, with a fire-like flame and brass vessels on the mats. No single figure is clearly identifiable as a person from appearance, so the scene reads as a devotional puja with lamp offerings.

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Close photo of a doorway ritual. A person in a white top kneels at left, holding a steel vessel and pouring or arranging a dark liquid and scattered red, green and yellow offerings on the ground. At right, a barefoot figure in a full orange-saffron garment stands on a stone threshold, wearing black slippers and a small gold-coloured toe ring, with only the lower body visible. Pale concrete floor and white wall surround the scene.

A photograph of a ritual scene in which several people in saffron and rust-coloured dhotis with gold borders crouch and kneel closely together. In the foreground a figure with long dark hair, a red and white flower garland and a rudraksha mala with gold beads leans forward, scooping or pouring from a silver vessel onto a plate of brownish-gold powder. Beside them other participants with white ash markings on their arms and foreheads assist. Yellow and gold blocks lie on the ground with small yellow flowers. A standing attendant in white clothes and another in saffron wait at the edge, with polished brass vessels visible behind. The setting appears to be a temple or ashram at night.