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Outdoor temple ritual beside tall coconut palms at dusk, with a crowd of devotees in saffron and orange robes gathered around a raised pink-and-red platform scattered with yellow and red flower petals. A bald man in a saffron-red dhoti and shawl, with a rudraksha mala and a gold-coloured vessel in one hand, stands on the left smiling. Next to him, a man in a saffron robe raises a silver tray of flowers and offerings, while others stand with palms pressed together. Several devotees wear white and saffron garments; an older man in white stands in the foreground near a metal grate. A deity murti or sacred structure is partly visible at the left edge.

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