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Outdoor yagna pavilion under a corrugated roof supported by bamboo poles decorated with green palm fronds, with a sandy floor. Several square brick fire pits stand in rows, and a white-clad man in a white dhoti and shirt crouches at the nearest pit, tending it with a tool beside a bucket. Another white-clad man bends over a second pit, and more brick pits are visible further back. Seated devotees in white and coloured clothes sit along a rope barrier on the left, and standing onlookers are in the background beneath banners and loudspeakers.

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