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A ritual scene in a stone-walled hall with a grey concrete floor. A man in orange robes with a red-bordered cloth sits cross-legged at a low wooden platform with brass and steel vessels, a plate of white offerings and burning incense. Around him, several people in orange robes stand or kneel, one shaved-headed man in orange holds a small brass pot, and a woman with long dark hair in orange sits near the platform. Ornate brass lamps and a brass kalasha stand on the right beside a yellow-and-gold metal shrine, with orange ceremonial strips hanging from bamboo poles above. The page identifies this as an initiation into poornabhisheka vratha, but the robed man at the platform is not confidently identifiable from appearance, so the role is described only as a presiding priest.

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