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Evening aarti ceremony on a riverside ghat at dusk, with the river at left. Several shirtless young men in saffron-yellow dhotis stand on raised red-and-yellow platforms holding brass lamps and ritual implements. A man in the foreground holds a brass lamp aloft. Behind them a large crowd of devotees, many in white and some with yellow shawls, watches closely. Floodlights, strings of lights, flags and illuminated temple buildings frame the scene. The ceremony appears to be an aarti with oil lamps offered to the river.

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