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Outdoor homa ceremony at a square fire pit lined with white stone and strewn with yellow and red flowers. Several people in saffron-orange robes offer ghee and substances from brass bowls and ladles into the pit. A woman in orange with a red bindi and beaded mala pours from a brass vessel; a man with long curly hair and a gold-beaded necklace and white forehead markings stands beside a brass bowl. A woman in an orange sari with a red border works at the left, and a woman in white stands in the background. Banana leaves, marigolds and a blue pole frame the scene, with onlookers seated behind.

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A row of women in orange saffron robes with red borders sit cross-legged on striped pink and green mats during a puja. Several hold their palms together in anjali, while the foreground woman with a hair bun and white forehead marks holds a yellow flower and a small brass lamp. Brass oil lamps, white jasmine garlands and flower-filled bowls lie on the mat in front of them, with a clear plastic food container at lower left. Dark rudraksha malas hang around several necks. The background shows trees, a parked white car and a red wall.

A row of women seated on a paved ground during an outdoor ritual, each holding or tending brass oil lamps with lit flames. Several women in saffron and orange robes wear dark rudraksha malas, one in a red-orange garment at center reaching toward a lamp. An elderly woman on the right wears a yellow-green patterned sari. Before them are white and pink flower garlands, small plastic containers of offerings, coconut halves and red-orange items on the ground. Trees and a red structure stand in the background.

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Outdoor photograph of a row of devotees seated on the ground under trees, many dressed in saffron-orange clothing with red-brown borders, hands pressed together in anjali mudra with eyes closed in prayer. Several long bamboo poles or staffs rise diagonally above the group. In the foreground, brass and copper vessels, a kalasha-style pot, small oil lamps with flames, red flower offerings and a banana leaf are arranged on a mat. Some participants wear white garments, and a few wear rudraksha malas. A man in orange seated at right has a tilak on his forehead. Partially visible people in white stand in the background among the trees.

A ritual scene in a temple hall with a concrete floor. In the foreground, a man in a red shawl over orange clothing sits cross-legged, holding a flower-strewn plate and a small vessel, while a copper pot and cup sit on the floor. Two men in orange robes sit facing him with hands folded, one in the foreground partly visible. Behind them, seated devotees in white dhotis and a man in orange stand near a row of brass kalasha pots and coconuts on a gold-framed platform.

Outdoor night homa at a square fire pit lined with white stone, with a large flame rising from the centre. Around it sit a close circle of saffron and orange-clad sannyasis and women devotees, many with rudraksha malas and white forehead markings. A woman in saffron at the top of the frame sits behind the fire pit near a decorated white and gold frame, with a brass kalasha and oil lamps placed around the pit. A shaved-headed man in orange at left leans forward gesturing toward the offerings. Roughly twenty to thirty people are visible.

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A satsang gathering of devotees seated on the floor of a hall, mostly in saffron-orange robes with rudraksha malas and white vibhuti marks on their foreheads. In the foreground, three young girls sit cross-legged behind brass plates of flowers, brass cups, small oil lamps and a lit candle; the girl in the centre sings or chants with palms joined. Behind them, older women in orange and a bespectacled woman in saffron with a rudraksha mala sit among other devotees in the background. No individual is identifiable as a person in this image; the seated figures are devotees and participants.

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