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Outdoor ritual photograph at a temple-style stage with orange and red fabric. A man with long dark hair, wearing an orange robe, a large white and red flower garland and a gold-bead necklace, reaches a hand over a burning clay lamp held in a shallow bowl. Another orange-robed man with a shaved head stands behind him holding a tray, and a man in white attends at the right edge. A small fire burns in the foreground above clay pots hung on a wooden frame, with smoke rising. Crowds of people in white clothes are seated beyond the stage under blue tarpaulin tents and trees. The scene suggests aarti or fire-offering ritual activity.

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