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Night ritual inside an open-sided temple pavilion with white canvas roof and colourful striped mats. A sacred fire burns in a yellow-rimmed homa pit in the foreground, with silver vessels and offerings beside it. Two sannyasi priests in saffron-orange dhotis and matching turbans stand at right; the nearer one holds a lit flame aloft and the other holds a silver bowl. Behind the fire, a seated figure in orange robes and a rudraksha mala sits on a red-cushioned throne before a shrine with a golden arch and gilded deity murtis draped in red curtains. A dark stone deity murti garlanded with marigolds stands at left. Several other people are partly visible at the edges.

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