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Outdoor ritual at a tent with a red carpet and banana-leaf decorations. A seated figure in saffron-orange robes, an orange turban and a long rudraksha mala holds a steel plate of food and offers it toward a kneeling woman in white and gold-bordered sari with an orange shawl. Standing beside them are women in white saris with orange shawls, including a woman with light hair, and men in white dhotis and shirts with rudraksha malas. A leaf platter with fruit, sweets and flowers lies in front. The seated figure matches the page's description of a person only by appearance; no name is printed on the image itself.

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