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Outdoor procession at dusk on a dirt site beside a dark vehicle. A man with long swept-back dark hair, wearing a white garland of jasmine and an orange shawl, bends forward at the car door while another devotee in orange kneels and presses a brass plate of turmeric, kumkum and betel leaves. A bearded man in orange robes and garlands holds a small silver ornate vessel. A man in a white kurta raises a hand to a wooden pole, and a man in white takes a photograph. Behind them a crowd of people in white and orange walks along a road toward palm trees, with a blue signboard at right. Procession and aarti-style reception context, not an indoor ritual.

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