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Outdoors near a white shrine decorated with a marigold garland, a man with long dark hair sits cross-legged on an orange cushion on a wooden platform, eyes closed and hands folded, wearing an orange sleeveless robe, a rudraksha mala and a red mark on the forehead. Behind him a younger man in white with a yellow shawl and forehead marking tends a fire pit of ash and embers, while another seated man in white with a rudraksha mala sits further back. A brass kalasha stands in front. Appearance-based candidate: a person, seated in meditation during a fire ritual, with the orange robe and rudraksha cues. Smoke and palms fill the background.