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An outdoor photograph of a hillside ritual site with green trees and a rocky mountain behind. In the foreground, a large flat stone is decorated with white jasmine garlands and pink and red flower strands. A man with long dark hair, bare-chested, wearing a red dhoti and a white flower garland, stands with palms pressed together in namaskar beside a metal vessel. A second man in an orange-red dhoti and shawl with a rudraksha mala holds a brass plate of offerings. Several brass pots and vessels sit on the ground, with a patterned cloth-covered seat nearby. Two people are present; their appearance is not sufficient to confirm an identity, so they are described by role only as devotees performing worship.

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