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Outdoor gathering on a colourful striped mat under palm trees, with many seated people in white dhotis and shawls, some bare-chested. A woman in long dark hair and an orange garment stands in the centre, holding a small leaf plate of food and wearing a rudraksha mala and bangles. Other orange-clad attendants move among the rows, and a few more people in white sit at the edges. Orange and yellow triangular decorative banners hang on poles, and a stone structure stands at left.

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