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Outdoor groundbreaking ceremony at a rocky, bushy site. A young man in a saffron-orange turban and saffron wrap, wearing a multicolour flower garland and a rudraksha mala, stands with hands raised in a blessing gesture. Beside him an older man in white kurta and white dhoti, grey hair, bends low to place a red and yellow flower-covered brick into freshly dug red earth. Coconuts and a striped cloth lie on the ground at lower left, and a woman in a pale yellow embroidered kurta and a man in light shirt and grey trousers watch nearby. A ceremonial brick-laying for a new structure.

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