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Outdoor ritual gathering under a pavilion with a golden canopy and fringed red-blue-yellow drapes, surrounded by palm trees and pink flowering shrubs. A man seated on an ornate gold-and-red throne wears an orange-red garment, a rudraksha mala and yellow-white garlands, holding a microphone and gesturing as he speaks. Standing nearby are a bare-chested man in white dhoti with a white sacred thread, and a man in white dhoti and shawl with hands folded. Around a golden puja table with kalasha, brass vessels, a decorated pot and a flower-garlanded plate sit many devotees, mostly bare-chested or in white, wearing yellow marigold garlands, seen from behind and in profile. A deity murti in yellow and gold robes stands on a pedestal at left. Several sit cross-legged on mats, some in orange cloth.

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