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A photograph of a temple ritual preparation. A man in a rust-red sannyasi wrap with a long wrap and forehead tilak sits and sprinkles or touches white grains and a small orange powder inside a large embossed bronze vessel with ornate relief figures. To his left, a bare-chested man with an Om symbol painted on his chest and white dhoti with gold border sits on a stone ledge. Behind, a young boy in orange cloth sits cross-legged, and a standing man in orange robes is at the right edge. A white pedestal fan, a red cloth, a small wooden box and a water bottle are nearby. The main figure's appearance is consistent with the page's a person reference, but the cues are not distinctive enough to confirm, so the role is described as a sannyasi performing the ritual.

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