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Outdoor group ritual with devotees seated on mats and cloth. In the foreground a bald man in white dhoti with a red border holds a silver lamp (aarti) over a silver thali of offerings, while a gold-chain-adorned man in white and a woman in a white sari with yellow border sit with hands in anjali. On the left a bare-chested man with gold necklace holds a small oil lamp with a flame. A woman in glasses and white attire with a yellow shawl and forehead marks is seated in the middle, and a woman in white with a yellow shawl and bangles folds her hands at right. Brass lamps and offerings lie on the floor behind, with more devotees in orange and white visible in the background.

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