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Outdoor ritual scene at a temple-style stepped courtyard where devotees sit on red-tiled tiers beside rows of brass and metal pots. In the centre, a young shirtless man in an orange dhoti with a red stripe and a rudraksha mala stands beside a large black stone Nandi bull, holding a lit incense stick or lamp toward it while a red and orange-marked forehead and sacred ash marks are visible. Around him, seated devotees in pink, magenta, orange and yellow saris and kurtas, some wearing orange shawls, hold ritual items and watch. A green-and-white netted barrier and bamboo-like poles line the steps. Partial view of a light-skinned man beside a patterned lungi at the right edge.

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