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Outdoor courtyard ritual at an orange-walled building with a clock and a dark wooden board reading Dhyanapeetam. A shaved-headed priest in a plain white dhoti with a gold-bordered shawl holds a silver aarti plate of yellow flowers and a lit flame toward a second shaved priest in an orange cloth, while smoke rises. Several women in white saris with gold borders and an orange-sari woman stand with hands folded in prayer. A small brass oil lamp hangs on the left wall and a plate of yellow flowers sits on a table. The priest's appearance does not clearly match the a person cues, so no identification is made.

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