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A seated crowd of devotees, mostly women, sits closely together during an evening ritual. The central woman wears a beige shawl with red floral motifs over an orange-and-red patterned sari and red bangles, holding a small brown clay lamp or cup up to her forehead with both hands. Beside her, a woman in a blue-and-white patterned shawl with rudraksha beads holds a similar clay lamp, and a figure in white with a gold-bordered sari sits in the foreground holding another. A glass bottle sits on the floor among the devotees, and many others in white, pink and bright clothing are visible in the background, consistent with a deepam lamp ceremony.

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