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Outdoor ritual on riverside steps beside a broad, muddy-green river. Two men in orange and rust-red robes sit before a yellow fringed parasol and a low table draped in orange cloth, holding ceremonial objects and offering items. The man on the left has a shaved head and sits with hands folded; the man in the middle wears a red turban, rudraksha beads and ornate red-orange garments, performing the ritual. Silver tridents and staffs stand around the altar. Facing them, roughly thirty seated devotees in white, orange and red shawls sit in rows on the steps, and a photographer with a tripod films from the right.

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