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A photograph of an open-sided yagna hall with a dirt floor and a palm-thatched roof. Brick fire pits are arranged across the ground, and banana or palm trunks stand between them. Several people stand in small groups among the pits. Three women in orange shawls stand in the centre-left, with a man in a grey shirt and trousers between them. On the right, a group of people wear white dhotis and orange shawls, one carrying a black bag. A foreground brick fire pit is in the lower left. No figure is clearly identifiable as a person.

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