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Two men stand before a maroon velvet curtain performing a lamp ritual. The man on the left wears a white dhoti-style garment, a gold bead necklace, a gold bangle and white sacred markings on his forehead and arms, and he holds the stem of a silver oil lamp. The man on the right wears an orange turban, an orange saffron-coloured wrap, a long gold bead mala and a gold bangle, and he holds the lamp's bowl with a flame burning in it. He looks down at the flame. The lamp is an oil lamp, and the scene reads as an aarti-style lamp offering on a white floor with a patterned mat at the edge.

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