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Photograph of a fire-walking ritual at an outdoor site with red earth. A long trench is filled with glowing grey embers and ash, lined with white dotted markings. A woman in a white and yellow-bordered sari walks barefoot across the embers, her hands near her face. To the right, a woman in a white sari with a yellow-bordered shawl stands with palms pressed together in prayer. To the left, a man in a white shirt and white dhoti wears a rudraksha mala and stands with hands folded. Behind them, devotees in white clothing, many wearing rudraksha malas, stand in a crowd near a bamboo rail. A drummer in white clothes plays a drum at the right edge, and a decorated procession cart is partly visible at upper right. A small red-roofed shrine and palm trees appear in the background.

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