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A crowded ritual scene in a white tent with haze in the air. A bare-backed priest with long grey hair and a white sacred thread stands centre, back to camera, with a gold-bordered cloth at his waist. Beside him a man in a pink dhoti with a yellow-and-gold sash raises his arm, pouring liquid over a figure at the centre. Around them devotees wear saffron and orange turbans and headbands, and a woman in a red and orange sari with a garland stands at left. A deity murti or small figure wrapped in red cloth and draped with yellow marigold garlands is held up near the right, with incense smoke and mist drifting through the group. Several people wear rudraksha malas. Priests and devotees in the crowd appear to be performing an abhishekam. A figure in orange and red at left is near a smaller red-clad figure.

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