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A photograph of an outdoor temple ritual under a pink-draped canopy decorated with orange flowers. A standing priest in orange robes and orange-saffron shawl holds a tray of offerings before a shrine with a deity murti adorned with marigold garlands and a kalasha-like golden arch behind it. Beside him, another orange-clad priest kneels with a flaming lamp. A woman in orange sari and a man in white dhoti with garlands sit with folded hands on mats in front of a stone altar lined with brass oil lamps, fruit, and flower-filled plates. Onlookers in white and pink stand and sit behind, some with palms pressed together in namaste.

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