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Night photograph of a temple ritual outdoors. A young priest in saffron-orange dhoti and matching upper cloth, with a rudraksha mala and gold armlets, stands behind a table draped with purple and blue cloths. He holds a silver vessel with a small lamp aloft in one hand while a smoking censer or flame rises beside him. Several brass and copper kalasha pots wrapped in orange and gold cloth and garlanded with yellow marigolds sit on the table. Red pillars and a dark night background frame the scene. No physical face is identified; the figure is a priest performing an aarti-style offering.

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