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Night photograph of an outdoor yajna enclosure lit by fluorescent tube lights strung along bamboo poles, with banana-leaf and coconut-frond garlands and palm fronds hanging overhead and tall decorated pillars at the edges. Several men in white dhotis and white shirts stand around the sandy ground, and one man in white bends low near the white stone fire pits in the lower right. A figure in a saffron-orange cloth stands in the left foreground with bare upper body. A woman in a white sari with a gold border and a dark mala stands in the centre-right. Stone fire pits and a sandy floor indicate a fire-offering ritual setting. Approximately eight to ten people are visible.

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