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Night outdoor ceremony on a sandy courtyard lit by string lights. A bearded man with long hair, bare-chested and wearing a rust-brown dhoti-style wrap, raises both arms behind his head beside a tall wooden staff carrying a multicoloured fringed canopy in red, yellow, green, blue and white. Behind him a bare-chested attendant in orange cloth holds the staff. Three young men in orange cloth stand to the left, one with palms pressed together in namaskar, another holding a leaf-wrapped offering with yellow flowers, and all wearing rudraksha-style beaded necklaces with white tripundra markings on their foreheads. A red stone platform with a bronze lamp stand is at right.