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Night photograph of a fire ritual at an open-air tent venue. In the foreground a bright fire pit with marigold flowers and offerings sits at lower right. A shaved-headed priest in white dhoti with gold borders and an orange shawl stands at left with hands folded, and a bare-chested priest in white dhoti with gold borders and a rudraksha-style arm band stands beside him. A man in white dhoti with a white headband stands at right near a table draped in red cloth with gold vessels. A devotee kneels in the lower centre, a figure in a white and pink cloth offering something to the fire. A woman in a pale yellow sari walks in the background past white chairs.

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