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Outdoor ritual gathering in a sandy courtyard beside a tall coconut palm and a white-plastered platform holding a dark stone deity murti draped with a garland. In the foreground, a seated group wearing orange and saffron robes sits on orange cloths and striped mats around a low altar with a white-and-black seat draped in an orange shawl, a white flower garland, brass vessels, plates of offerings and a kalasha-style pot. A bearded man in orange robes and a rudraksha mala sits at the centre of the altar; a few others in orange and yellow sit nearby. Behind them, people in white clothes sit in rows on the ground, and orange chairs are set at the left. Incense smoke rises in the morning haze. a person's presence is not documented on this page, so no identification is made.

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