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Three bare-chested men in saffron-orange robes and matching orange head wraps sit on a red cloth before a brass ritual setup. The man on the left has long dreadlocked hair, white ash markings on his forehead and arms, and a yellow-and-orange shawl, and he reaches toward an ornate gold-and-brass casket decorated with white and pink flowers. The man in the centre wears a rudraksha mala and a white forehead mark, and the man on the right, wearing spectacles and a long beard, also wears a rudraksha mala. Brass bowls, a kalasha-like vessel, a steel pot, fruit and small oil lamps sit before them, with a figure in white at the right edge. The scene appears to be a puja or ritual outdoors near greenery.

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