Outdoor ceremony at a concrete block or foundation stone, with a man in long swept-back hair, a saffron-orange robe and a heavy green-beaded garland with gold ornaments, extending his right hand toward a brass lamp with a lit flame held by a boy in white. Behind them, a crowd of men and boys in white dhotis and shirts and saffron-clad attendants stand watching, with an orange cloth draped over the block at left. Palm trees and an orange flag appear in the background under an overcast sky.