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Outdoor riverside ritual on a stone ghat with a crowd raising hands in devotion. In the foreground, a bare-chested man with long swept-back hair wears a rudraksha-style gold chest adornment, bangles and a deep red-and-saffron shawl, seated on a leopard-print cushion with raised palms; this figure shows distinctive ceremonial cues consistent with a person. Beside him an older man in white kurta with a purple shawl raises both arms. Before them stands an ornate silver palanquin-style seat draped in red and gold embroidered cloth and orange marigold garlands, with a silver kalasha and brass lamp on the platform. Behind, many devotees in white and saffron clothing wave hands, and a white domed shrine and red-and-white temple structures rise above the water.

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