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Outdoor group work beneath a large tree with spreading branches. Several people in orange and saffron clothing, including women in orange saris with gold borders and men in orange robes, stand and bend around a freshly dug reddish-brown earth pit. A man in a white shirt and white trousers bends over the pit on the left, while a man in a black tracksuit with white stripes pours or tosses soil from a metal tray. Another man in an orange robe with a rudraksha mala holds a green bucket, and a bald man in white robes and a white cap stands beside him holding a green bucket. Two foreigners in casual clothes stand on the right watching. Green and turquoise buckets sit on the ground around the pit.

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