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Outdoors among tall palm trees, a bronze-and-copper dhwaja kambam (flagstaff) rises from an orange-painted stone platform, wrapped with white cloth and garlanded with yellow marigold strands. A man in white dhoti with gold borders stands at its base, arms raised and holding a plate, looking upward. Beside him a bald man in an orange-red garment with gold border and beaded necklaces raises one hand. To the left a line of young boys in red-orange robes and dark caps stand with hands folded, and seated monks in orange-red robes sit at the right edge. A faint bird figure appears in the sky at the top left.

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