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Outdoor ritual under a corrugated metal roof with palm trees behind. A tall copper ritual pillar or kalasha stands at centre. A figure with hair tied back, wearing an orange-red robe with gold borders and a pink-and-white garland, reaches up to the top of the copper pillar and holds a straw-wrapped bundle. A second robed figure in orange-red stands beside them, reaching up with hands clasped. A bald man in an orange-red robe with a rudraksha mala sits at lower right, and another man with a sacred marking on his forehead sits at lower left. Some white-clad people stand in the background. a person appearance is uncertain.

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