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Outdoor fire-walking ritual on a dirt path lined with dark ash or charred embers. A bald man in plain white kurta and white dhoti walks barefoot across the coals, arms slightly out for balance, with a name badge on his chest. Around him, devotees in white shirts, white mundus and white dhotis stand on both sides of the trench, several wearing lanyards with badges and rudraksha malas; one man at right wears a white shirt and a rudraksha mala. Some onlookers hold long wooden poles along the edge. A few people are barefoot on the earth, and small white dots mark the edges of the path. No clearly identifiable figure in saffron or crowned attire is visible, so no a person candidate is present.

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