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Night aarti ceremony outdoors. A standing man in orange and gold-bordered dhoti and upper cloth, bare-chested with a gold necklace and bangles, holds a silver multi-wick oil lamp with five flames aloft in his right hand, smoke rising, and a small silver bell in his left. Beside him, a bald man in white dhoti with gold border, gold chains and bangles sits in anjali mudra, palms pressed together. Other people in white are partly visible at the left edge, and a brass bowl sits on the ground in front. Lit lamps and a blurred floodlight stand in the background.

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