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Outdoor ritual puja on a striped cloth in front of a carved wooden door set in a stone wall. Four men sit in a semicircle: the man at left, bare-chested in a white dhoti with a yellow shawl, pours or arranges items over a brass plate; a man in an orange-and-white cloth with a shaved head and tilak sits behind a bowl; a seated man in an orange shawl and dhoti on the right also wears white-and-orange sacred markings. Ritual offerings include red and orange flower garlands, banana bunches, mango and tomato fruits, a brass lamp, and plates of yellow marigold petals and green leaves. A small brick fire pit with lit oil lamps and a kalasha-like vessel stands at lower left.