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Evening Ganga aarti on a riverbank ghat at dusk, with several priests in white dhotis and kurtas holding up lit fire lamps toward a shrine. A large, dense crowd of devotees, many in saris, shawls and white clothes, sits and stands on stone steps above the water. Lit diyas float on the dark river in the foreground, reflecting golden light. A glowing shrine with a deity murti sits at the top of the steps. The scene is a Ganga aarti ritual at a river ghat.

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