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Outdoor photo of a hilltop-backed ashram compound with a bare rocky hill rising behind red-and-white striped platforms. Several people in saffron and orange robes sit and stand on the raised platform near a parked orange truck, while others in white and orange clothing gather at the right beside a canopy and brass vessels, and several figures in white stand at the left by a white car. Brass pots and offering plates sit on the ground in the foreground near a sapling and a tree at left. The page refers to Thiruvannamalai and Arunachala, but the hill is not itself a named landmark here, and the ritual is not identifiable from the image alone.

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