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Night-time outdoor ritual scene in an open-sided shed with a corrugated roof and a breeze-block wall. A man in a leopard-print patterned shawl and dhoti with a long orange sash, dark swept-back hair and a long-sleeved white garment stands centre, facing a group. In front of him lies a dark metal deity murti in a reclining or fallen posture on a stone base beside a long cylindrical stone pillar. Around them devotees in white, a woman in a cream sari, a boy in white with a rudraksha mala, and a camera operator with a shoulder camera stand watching. At left a priest in saffron dhoti and orange shawl with rudraksha beads stands near a red-and-orange signboard. Swamiji (probable): the centre figure in the leopard-print garment and swept-back hair, shown with distinctive ornamented attire.

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