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Outdoor ritual photograph under a striped canopy with red, green, blue and orange cloth and a decorated top panel. A man in an orange turban and saffron-orange robe, with long swept-back hair and a multi-strand garland of white and yellow flowers, holds a brass oil lamp lit with a flame and smiles. Beside him a bare-chested man in a cream dhoti and shawl holds a flower-decorated pot, while others in white dhotis and orange shirts stand with palms pressed together. Mango leaves hang from the canopy. Appearance-based candidate, a person, is shown performing a lamp offering during the inauguration ritual.

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