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Indoor group ritual in a large hall with cream walls and a polished pale floor. Many seated participants, mostly bare-chested, wear saffron-orange cloth and rudraksha malas, with white ash markings on their foreheads and arms. In the foreground, a bald man in orange cloth holds a small oil lamp, and a seated man in rust-brown cloth tends incense sticks over a brass tray of offerings. At right, a bald man in rust-brown cloth raises a small brass lamp. Brass bowls, lamps, flowers and incense smoke sit on red cloths on the floor. A child is visible at the left edge. Lamps and offerings suggest a puja or homa-style gathering.

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