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Outdoor photo of devotees in white ritual clothing dancing and playing a game on a sandy courtyard in front of a white building with a yellow gate and a palm tree. Several young women in white dresses with orange sashes or waist cloths smile and move in a circle, one woman in a white shawl leads with bent knees, and others in white garments with orange scarves watch. Men in white dhotis and white shirts stand in the background, and a child sits on the sand at the left. Many onlookers stand under trees and a red-and-white striped wall, with a blue sign visible at the upper right, a Brahmotsav Day-6 celebration.

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