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Outdoor scene on a dirt ground beside a white-walled building with a green corrugated roof, palm trees behind, and carved stone figures lining a bed. Several devotees in white dhoti and kurta sit cross-legged on dark ash-circle mats across the ground, some wearing yellow shawls and others red shawls, with small fires and smoke rising from fire pits in front of them. A man in white stands at the centre-left, and another in white walks at the right edge. A small wooden tray or cloth sits in one ash circle. The setting appears to be a rural ashram courtyard in the morning.

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Outdoor photo of a ritual fire ceremony on a bare dirt ground beneath coconut palms, with smoke rising from the trees on the left. Several rows of seated participants sit cross-legged around circular fire pits holding ash and embers. Most wear white ritual clothing with red or yellow shawls; a seated man at the front left in an orange-saffron robe holds his hands in anjali near the pit, and a central man in white with a red shawl sits at the front of the pit area. A wood pile and a small white building with a corrugated roof stand in the background, and stone statues are visible at the right edge. Several dozen physical people are visible.2010-08-08An outdoor ritual on a bare dirt ground beneath tall coconut palms. Around fifteen to twenty people sit in white clothes with yellow shawls, several wearing red scarves, arranged in a loose circle of small ash-rimmed fire pits, some smoking. At the left foreground, a figure in orange-saffron robes sits with hands pressed together in prayer, the only saffron-clad person visible, but his face and features are not clearly discernible and his appearance is not distinctive enough to confirm identity. Behind them a pile of firewood, a small white building with a green roof, and stone statues along the right edge complete the scene.2010-08-08August 09 20102010-08-09Outdoor ashram scene of a Pancha-tapas practice: about a dozen men in white dhotis and white shirts with yellow shawls sit cross-legged inside circular rings of ash and charred embers on a dirt ground. Smoke rises from fires behind them among tall coconut palms, with a small white-walled building with a green roof and a few figures standing in the background. The men appear to be in meditation.2010-07-07August 07 20102010-08-07Outdoor ritual scene on bare reddish earth beneath tall palms and a grey, overcast sky. Several men in white dhotis and white shirts sit cross-legged in circular ash-rimmed fire pits, some with yellow shawls and others with orange-red shawls draped over their shoulders. Small fires and smoke rise from the pits, and a few figures stand or bend in the background tending the flames. Behind them stand an orange-red pillar, a white stupa-like structure and a stone object near a palm grove, with a bundle of firewood at right. This looks like a homa or yagna with sacred fire, though no printed text is visible on the scene itself.2010-08-14Outdoors among tall palm trees, a row of men in white dhotis and white shirts sit cross-legged on bare sandy ground in meditation. Several wear yellow shawls draped over their shoulders, and the front man on the left has a red tilak on his forehead and a rudraksha mala. Circular patches of grey ash or fire residue mark the ground around them, and a faint smoke rises in the background near a white pillar and a low wall. A man in white stands further back on the right. No one is identifiable as a person in this image.2010-07-14June 13 20102010-06-13Outdoor fire ritual (homa) on a dirt ground under palm trees, with smoke rising. A man in orange robes and a rudraksha mala sits cross-legged at the front of a circular fire pit with flames burning, holding a brass vessel. Around the pit and behind it, many people in white clothes sit in rows performing the ritual, while two standing men in white dress, one with a yellow cloth and one with a red-orange shawl, look on. A figure in orange sits at the right edge, and a white stone structure with a figure stands at left. The scene includes a small white building with a green roof in the background.2010-06-13An outdoor photograph of a homa or fire ritual on bare earth under coconut palms, with a grey overcast sky. Several circular fire pits lined with white ash stand in the open ground, with flames and smoke rising from some of them. A seated man in orange robes in the foreground sits on a mat near a pit, and a bald man in white stands to the left beside a figure in a striped shirt. Further back, several people in white clothes sit or stand near the fire pits, one wearing a red-orange shawl on the right. A white-walled small building with a green tin roof and a wooden fence sit behind them, with a wooden pole in the middle distance.2010-08-14Outdoor photograph of a group of men seated cross-legged in a row on bare sandy ground, each within a circular patch of grey ash and charred embers from a fire ritual. They wear white dhotis and white kurtas with yellow shawls draped over their shoulders, and several have rudraksha malas. Some sit with hands folded in prayer or resting in lap, eyes closed in meditation. Smoke drifts through the scene, with palm trees and green foliage behind, a stone fire-pit or stone vessel at left, and a bamboo fence at right. There are eight seated people visible, with several partially obscured at the back.2010-07-07July 20 20102010-07-20