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A temple ceremony under a canopy decorated with colourful striped fabric and hanging banana-leaf festoons. A bare-chested attendant in orange dhoti raises a tall golden staff topped with a large ornate parasol. In front, a bearded man in a rust-red turban and red-and-white flower garland, wearing a gold necklace and a rudraksha-style chain, presses his hands together at his chest. Around him, a crowd stands with hands folded, including women in orange and saffron saris and a man in white dhoti with rudraksha beads. Floral offerings and brass vessels sit on a red-and-green cloth in the foreground.

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