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Evening outdoor ritual at a tall copper-clad pillar set on a stepped red stone base, its top wrapped in green leaves and white and yellow garlands, with flower petals scattered on the platform. A woman in an orange-red sari with a red and orange garland stands at right holding a lit lamp toward the pillar. A shaved-headed priest in orange robes kneels in front at right, holding a brass tray and joining his palms, with a white tilak on his forehead. Several people in white and light clothing watch from the left, some with hands folded, under coconut palms and a dusk sky. A photographer's camera is visible at the left edge.

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