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A photograph of a ritual offering outdoors on grass. A seated figure in orange robes and an orange turban, with long dark hair and a dark rudraksha mala, holds a steel plate of food and reaches toward a kneeling woman in a white and gold-bordered sari with an orange shawl, who cups her hands to receive a handful. Behind them, men in white dhotis and shirts stand near brass vessels and a pot, and a pink plastic chair and flower petals lie on the cloth. The seated figure has distinctive saffron clothing, a turban and a rudraksha mala, consistent with the appearance of the a person, though the identification is uncertain.

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