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Outdoor ritual photograph at an ashram entrance with a dark roofed doorway behind. A man in a red saffron-toned shawl and a long rudraksha mala stands centre, with a white horizontal tilak on his forehead, holding a long wooden staff upright while white powder or smoke billows around him. Beside him a younger man in an orange shawl and white tilak holds a brass plate and reaches out with white powder. A crowd of devotees in white and orange garments and some women in white stands behind, with a woman in a white top at the top of the frame. Visible smoke and white ash suggest a fire or ritual offering.

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