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Night photograph of a crowd at a temple-like venue with a floor scattered with petals. Three men in white ritual clothing stand in the foreground. A balding man in a cream shirt and white dhoti, with a vertical tilak on his forehead, holds a flower-garland tray decorated with yellow marigolds and pink flowers toward a white-clad elder with white hair, glasses and a sacred thread-like cord. To the right, a bearded white-haired man in a white kurta and white dhoti, wearing a rudraksha-style mala and a wristwatch, stands with palms pressed together in namaste. Other devotees in white and dark clothing watch from the background. The timestamp reads 30 19:14 and a copyright credit appears on the image.

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