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Outdoor photograph on a riverbank ghat where a homa fire pit with burning flame sits on a yellow base, and a priest in orange-red cloth with a red headwrap and bare chest sits cross-legged performing the ritual beside it. Brass vessels and a tall brass lamp stand near the fire. Behind them a large crowd of devotees in white clothes, some in orange and red shawls, sits on steps and ledges facing the flowing Ganga river, with a film camera on a tripod and a rope-and-post railing across the water. Around 60 people are visible.

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