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A six-panel collage of photographs from a temple-ritual event in a small ashram room with orange-yellow walls and red floor mats. Top left: a bare-chested man with a rudraksha mala and white dhoti holds white cloth bundles at his head beside a man in a blue polo shirt and a woman in white. Top right: several people in white garments sit on a red mat before a shrine with multiple deity murtis and garlands, one woman in purple holding a white cloth to her head. Middle left: people in white and light clothes stand and kneel on red mats, some with white cloths on their heads, near a brass vessel. Middle right: a bare-chested man in a white dhoti with a rudraksha mala sits as a woman in a teal dress assists him, beside an elephant-headed Ganesha murti with floral garlands. Bottom left: a bare-chested man in white and a seated man in white sit before a shrine with garlanded murtis and a painting of a forest scene. Bottom right: a crowd in white and casual clothes stands and kneels with white cloths on their heads near the shrine. Collage panels are photographs; people counted across panels are estimated as roughly twenty.

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