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Outdoor ground-breaking ceremony under a canopy with striped purple, teal and white fabric and hanging tassels. A young man in an orange turban, orange robe and a long white-and-yellow flower garland pours water from a steel vessel into a pit lined with yellow bricks, as a bhoomi pooja worship of the earth. Around him, an elderly bearded man in an orange garland and shawl stands beside a kneeling man in white with hands joined in prayer. Others in white dhotis and shirts, and a bare-chested man with a sacred thread, watch closely. Floor kolam designs of coloured powder and flower petals surround the pit, with a small puja arrangement of fruit and offerings behind.

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