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A group of about nine young men seated cross-legged on woven mats in a courtyard during a morning puja. They wear white dhoti-style clothing and white shirts, with lanyards around their necks and sandalwood or ash tilaks on their foreheads. Brass thalis holding flower petals, small oil lamps and kumkum-marked offerings are arranged in front of them. A red and white striped wall and a stairway stand behind them, with potted plants at the right edge. One standing person in white is partly visible at the left edge. No person is clearly identifiable as a person, so none is claimed.

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