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A photograph of a fire-walking ritual at an outdoor pit filled with grey-white ash and embers. A man in a plain white kurta and white dhoti, with rudraksha beads around his neck and hands pressed together in namaste, steps barefoot across the ash. Behind him, a crowd of devotees dressed in white dhotis and shirts, some with red shawls and sacred threads, stands along the raised earthen edges of the pit watching. Wooden poles and rope sit at the pit's edge, and a red-roofed building appears in the background. The scene conveys a fire-walking ritual during the Brahmotsavam festival.

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