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A night-time ceremony in a temple-like hall decorated with yellow marigold garlands and a gold-and-red ornate throne backdrop. A bearded man with long dark hair, wearing an orange-saffron robe, a pink-and-white flower garland and a rudraksha mala, sits on a leopard-print cushioned seat and extends a printed card or booklet toward a bowing priest. The priest wears a bare upper body with a white dhoti edged in gold and a gold armlet, and is folding forward with a gold-rimmed brass plate nearby. Behind them, several seated devotees in white and orange garments watch; a woman in an orange sari and a man bare-chested with a rudraksha mala wear flower garlands. A gold shrine with a deity murti decorated in marigolds and a gold kalasha stands at right, with a wall clock and a brass bowl of yellow turmeric in the foreground.

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