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A night-time photograph of an outdoor ritual gathering. In the foreground, a shaved-headed man in a dark red-brown shawl over a plain garment stands beside an older man in a white shirt with a red shawl and a rudraksha-style beaded neck cord. Behind them, several people in saffron-orange and white robes are bent forward or kneeling, one in a white dhoti with gold borders bending low over an object. Oil lamps glow at the left edge, and blurred figures in white and orange stand in the background near a dark pillar and a garlanded structure. The people are mostly in devotional postures. No clearly identifiable a person figure is evident in the frame.

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