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Outdoor ritual gathering on a dirt ground beneath tall coconut palms, with white corrugated-roofed structures and white tent canopies at the sides. A large crowd of devotees stands and watches. In the foreground, men in white dhotis and white shirts stand in a line, one wearing a yellow waist cloth, and a drummer plays a drum on the left. A woman in a white sari stands near the right, and a man in a black shirt and white dhoti stands nearby. Several people wear white, and some women wear bright saris in yellow, green and pink. No clearly identifiable person in saffron is distinctively visible as a person, so the presence of a person is uncertain.

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