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Evening ritual inside a open-sided shed with a corrugated green metal roof and tricolour-style painted cloth panels with red and blue floral motifs. On the left, a decorated deity murti is garlanded with marigolds and yellow flower strings. A bare-chested man in orange dhoti stands with hands on hips watching. At center-right, a priest in a saffron-orange dhoti and yellow waist cloth raises a lit oil lamp aarti before a seated group of devotees in orange robes. In the foreground a man in white dhoti bends low in prostration over a floral offering arranged on the ground. Several saffron-clad sannyasi and devotees sit on the floor, and a few men in white stand in the background.

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