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Jodhpur:  As I waited for the group to catch up, I was invited
by a priest to enter a temple to Shiva, where a group of
older women were sitting in a horseshoe arrangement, chanting.
They encouraged -- no, practically demanded -- that I photograph
them, which I did. Then the priest invited me to photograph the
altar and offered me some rock candy -- I may have committed
a faux pas by eating the candy rather than offering it to the god --
the situation was ambiguous.