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Night-time outdoor gathering of devotees seated on tiered stone steps before rows of black stone pots and brass kalasha-like vessels with small oil lamps flickering on the ground. In the foreground a young woman with long curly dark hair and a black top and patterned trousers presses her palms together in prayer, beside a woman in a black top and light patterned skirt and a woman in white with long hair also in prayer. To the right a shirtless man with a rudraksha mala and a woman in pink sit with hands folded. Strings of coloured lights and red flags decorate the background. a person is not visibly identifiable in this frame.

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