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Outdoor fire ritual on bare ground beside a white wall. Three men sit cross-legged on ash-covered earth with eyes closed in meditation. The central-right man wears white clothes and a rudraksha mala with hands folded in his lap. The seated man in the middle wears white clothes, a yellow shawl and glasses, hands clasped. A man at left, partly cut off, wears white with a mala. A small wood fire burns in the foreground, and a long-handled shovel with a red handle lifts ash near a tree sapling. Smoke drifts across the scene. No a person candidate is visibly identifiable.

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