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A photograph of a seated group of devotees performing a ritual in a hall with red curtains. Many women and girls in orange and maroon robes sit on the floor, many with rudraksha malas, holding small oil lamps and cupping hands in prayer. Brass and steel bowls, cones and a small brass vessel sit on silver trays before them. One older woman in the foreground wears a maroon sari with gold border and holds a lit lamp. On the right, a woman in a white and red-bordered sari with a mala sits with hands folded. Foreheads bear white sacred markings. Roughly thirty to forty people are visible, including partially visible figures at the edges.

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