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Outdoor ritual on a riverbank beside a flowing river with bare shrubs and distant hills. Near the water, a fire burns in a rectangular pit lined with bricks, with copper-coloured pots and offering vessels on a red cloth. Several people sit in a semicircle in saffron and maroon robes with rudraksha malas, some with bare shoulders and shaved heads. A man on the right, seated on an ornate silver-backed throne with a leopard-print cushion, wears an orange-saffron shawl over his shoulders, long swept-back dark hair, a rudraksha mala and a gold ornament; he holds a long white ritual stick extended toward a seated devotee's head, apparently performing a blessing during a homa-style fire ritual. Women in red and orange robes sit to the left with hands folded. Swamiji (probable) is the seated figure on the throne, identified by long swept-back hair, saffron shawl, rudraksha mala and ceremonial gold ornament, in the role of the officiating presiding teacher.

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