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Night outdoor evening ritual on a paved courtyard with palm trees behind. Several devotees in rust-red and saffron-orange dhoti-style garments with gold-yellow borders perform aarti. A man on the left in an orange turban raises a lit oil lamp high in one hand and holds a small bell in the other. Behind him, women and men in red garments hold up clay lamps with lit flames. A woman on the right in red holds a terracotta bowl. Seated onlookers, some in white, watch from the ground, and a decorated deity murti with garlands and orange-red drapery stands on a raised platform at the upper right.

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