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Outdoor festival scene at a dirt-floored open ground lined with palm trees and strung bunting, under a bright blue sky. In the foreground a woman in a white sari with a yellow border walks barefoot through a shallow trench of white ash, while a man in white dhoti and shirt stands at the trench edge, and another man in a lime-green kurta and white dhoti watches beside a white-clad attendant holding a rope barrier. Drummers in white clothes play drums at left. Behind, a crowd of devotees in white, purple and blue saris and white garments stands along the ground, and several saffron-robed monks sit beneath a canopy on a raised platform with a yellow-and-red decorated tent behind them. A gold-coloured flag hangs at upper left.

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