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Close photograph of seated devotees in a ritual setting. In the foreground, a man in an orange saffron cloth wrap holds a small brass bell in his right hand, wearing dark rudraksha bead bracelets on the wrist, with white horizontal ash stripes painted on his upper arm and bare shoulder. Beside him, another seated man in white ritual cloth and white stripes on his arm holds a bead bracelet, and a further figure in white is partly visible on the left. Rudraksha mala beads hang across the back. Bare-chested participants with white markings suggest a ritual sitting. The image shows only hands, arms and torsos, with no visible faces.

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