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Outdoor ritual scene with a seated man bare-chested, wearing orange dhoti and orange shawl, with long dark hair in a topknot and a full black beard, white horizontal tripundra on forehead and white markings on arms and chest. He gestures over an ornate gold-and-carved wooden palanquin-style altar holding a decorated kalasha wrapped in pink-and-white woven cloth with a red flower, a small bell hanging above. A rudraksha mala drapes across his shoulders. Beside him a younger attendant in orange with a white forehead marking holds a microphone. A brass oil lamp stands at the lower left and gilded pillars and a red cushion appear behind.

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