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Night outdoor ritual on a raised stone platform. A homa fire burns in a metal pit at center, with brass pots, a flower-decorated kalasha and trays of fruit and flowers beside it. Three priests in white dhotis and bare upper bodies tend the rites; one pours from a vessel and another holds a lamp. In the background a large deity murti in a gold arched shrine is garlanded with flowers and beads, backed by red cloth. To the right a seated man in a dark red robe with palms pressed together sits on a gilded seat beneath a multicoloured umbrella. Roughly a dozen devotees seated in front, in orange and white clothes, face the platform, seen from behind.

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