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A photograph of an outdoor ritual. A man with long dreadlocks and a white and red forehead marking, wearing a rust-red robe and a garland of pink and white flowers with a gold pendant, stands with his right palm raised toward a white cloth-wrapped pole. Two attendants flank him: one on the left holds a wooden stick, and one on the right with a rudraksha mala and gold ornament presses his hands together in prayer. Behind them, a crowd of people in saffron-orange robes and turbans stands in the open air beneath trees. A brass plate with a small bowl sits beside the pole.

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