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Outdoor bhoomi puja at a rocky, tree-lined site under a decorated canopy with colourful fringed valance. A long-haired figure in orange robes and a red-orange garment with rudraksha mala stands with palms joined at the centre, facing a square brick-and-flower-lined pit where a young sapling is planted beside a kalasha-like pot and a small pitcher. Around them, men in white dhotis and shirts and saffron-robed men and women stand or kneel with palms folded; a bearded man in orange robes stands at right. Trays of flowers, fruit, sweets, coconuts and a brass lamp lie on cloths on the ground, and an orange-clad attendant holds a yellow flag at right. Mounded red earth lies in the foreground beside a stone slab.

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