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Outdoors among rocky hillside terrain with green shrubs and palm fronds, a man in an orange saffron dhoti and wrap performs a ritual offering. He stands behind a large grey boulder, leaning forward with both hands holding a round brass plate or tray above the rock. A small decorated shrine or palanquin-like structure with a colourful canopy and red garlands sits on top of the rock behind him, with scattered yellow flowers on the boulder surface. Orange flags flutter in the background. The figure's appearance is not clearly distinctive enough to confirm a candidate identity.

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