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Night-time fire ritual outdoors under strings of coloured lights and a decorated canopy. A fire burns in a brick-built homa pit, with flowers and kalasha-like offerings arranged in the foreground. A group of men in white dhoti and bare upper bodies with rudraksha malas stand in a line on the left, hands folded. In the centre, a man in white dhoti and shawl stands near the fire. On the right, a seated figure in an orange-saffron robe with a dark rounded headdress, layered beaded and rudraksha necklaces and a flower garland sits on an ornate gold-and-red throne under a golden umbrella, while a bare-chested man in a saffron cloth faces him and raises his hands. A woman in yellow sari with orange shawl kneels at the fire.

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