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Outdoor ritual by palm trees at a Jayanti-Brahmotsavam celebration. Devotees in white and cream traditional clothes walk barefoot across a shallow channel filled with dark embers or hot coals. A woman in a white sari with an orange-pink shawl steps through the channel, while a man in a bright lime-green kurta stands nearby in the crowd. On the left, a musician in a blue shirt plays a long black wind instrument. A large crowd of standing devotees, many in white, watches along the sandy red-earth path. A yellow bucket sits at the bottom left edge.

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