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Night photograph of an outdoor fire ritual on bare, dusty ground. A bright fire burns low on the earth, sending up smoke and sparks, with dark leaf debris around it. Several men in white shirts and white dhotis stand and move around the fire in the darkness. Behind them, further figures in white cluster near a glowing torch or lamp held aloft. A man in a white shirt on the right holds his hands out toward the flames, and a figure on the left, in a striped shirt, bends near the fire. No a person candidate is clearly visible; the figures are identifiable only as devotees and attendants.

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