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Indoor ritual scene in a room with yellow-ochre walls and framed photographs along the top edge. Several men in white dhotis and cream or yellow turbans sit on a striped multicolored mat beside a low metal tray with fruit, small brass vessels, a kalasha-style cup and bundles of dried stalks. The bare-chested man on the left and the man in the centre wear gold-and-bead necklaces and hold ritual items. A shaved-head man in the right foreground wears a rudraksha mala and white tilak on his forehead and chest, and gestures with his hands. Women in saris, one in a purple and gold sari and another in pink, sit in the foreground watching the ritual.

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