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Outdoor ceremony under a white canopy on a paved courtyard in Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu. In the foreground, rows of brass oil lamps and brass vessels with offerings sit on a long low table and on the ground. Several priests in white dhotis and orange-saffron garments wave white fly-whisks and fans. A seated man in an orange-saffron robe sits at the foreground left with a green cloth nearby. Hundreds of seated devotees in white clothes fill the courtyard, with a large audience beyond. A stage with green and saffron cloth, a camera on a crane and a row of coloured bunting complete the scene.

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