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Evening outdoor scene at a temple-style courtyard with reddish earth ground and a chalk-style kolam floor design in white and pink along the left edge. A bare-chested man in an orange-saffron dhoti stands with his back to the camera, holding a brass tray with orange offerings toward a group of women. Two women in dark and red saffron-toned saris receive the tray. Behind them a woman in a red-orange sari and an orange-clad child stand near a grey wall and a metal gate. Dark foliage frames the left side of the frame.

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