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Night photograph at a rough excavation site for a temple construction, with dirt mounds and dark foliage behind. In the centre, a figure in an orange-red robe and matching orange turban walks holding a wooden walking staff, with a rudraksha mala draped across the chest. Around him, several men in white kurtas and dhotis, some with red shoulder cloths, stand and move among the diggings, and a man in a blue-and-white striped shirt and white dhoti stands at left. The ground is churned earth with stones and pale rubble. No clear name is printed on the image other than the photo credit overlay.

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