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Outdoor riverbank ritual on pebbled shore beside flowing water. Several people in orange robes sit on an orange cloth performing a fire ritual; a metal fire pit burns with flames at right. A seated woman in orange raises a metal plate of offerings toward a small golden deity murti on a carved wooden stand, decorated with a red and white garland. Silver and copper pots, brass bowls, mango and marigold offerings lie on the cloth. Standing and seated onlookers watch, including a woman in white with folded hands, an older woman in orange, a woman in a white shawl, and children; a man in a white shirt stands near a microphone on a stand. A bald man in white sits with his back to the camera in the foreground. Several onlookers are visible, and a yellow sari appears at top. Darkness and sky are not described.

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