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Night ritual at a temple site lit by artificial light. Several men in white and off-white clothing bend over a large mound of rounded dark stones bound with red cord, setting stones into a prepared pit. One man wears a yellow-orange dhoti and another a blue head wrap. Behind them a dark deity murti is draped in red cloth and garlanded with yellow and gold ornaments, with a pole and blue rope nearby. On the left a seated figure in orange robes and a beaded necklace sits beside a brass vessel. Onlookers in white, blue and grey stand in the background among trees.

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