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A photograph of a ritual scene indoors. In the centre, a bare-chested young male priest sits cross-legged on the floor wearing a green silk dhoti with gold border and a white flower garland with orange and red blossoms over his shoulders, with a rudraksha mala and a turquoise bead strand; he leans over steel plates of yellow offerings and fruit. Behind him, a man in a white dhoti stands beside a standing figure in an orange kurta, and a youth in a dark grey kurta sits near a steel pot. Several attendants have white vibhuti marks on their foreheads. Steel vessels and a lidded pot sit on a red cloth.

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