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A night-time outdoor fire ritual with a brick fire pit in the foreground, flames and smoke rising at its left and the pit filled with scattered offerings and paper. Several men in plain white ritual clothing stand behind the pit; the nearest man in front wears a white shirt and dhoti-style white garment with a beaded necklace and holds a leaf plate of offerings he is pouring toward the fire. Other men in white, one holding a plate, stand near him, with a lit building and vehicle in the background. This appears to be a homa or yagna with offerings being made. No figure is clearly identifiable as a person based on appearance cues.

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