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Outdoors among palm trees, a figure with long dark hair and a bare upper body wrapped in an orange-saffron cloth ties an orange cord around a tall copper kalasha-like pillar. Yellow marigold garlands hang from the pillar's base, which has carved relief panels, and dried straw stalks are tucked at its foot. A second person, shaved-headed and wearing a white dhoti with an orange-bordered shawl and a beaded mala, stands beside it holding a silver tray of yellow flowers and offerings. The scene suggests a ritual dressing of a sacred pillar. The figure in orange is a person whose appearance is uncertain, so no identification is made.

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