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Outdoor night ritual at a flag-hoisting post beside a small shrine area under trees. Four men in saffron and orange ritual dress stand around a tall metal pole topped with a bundle of straw. The man on the right, wearing an orange garment and multiple beaded necklaces, pulls a rope up over the pole while another man in orange holds a rope nearby. A man in pink robes with a small orange bag stands at left, and a bare-chested man in orange cloth attends beside a red-covered table holding brass vessels. A black stone pot sits at the pole's base on a brick platform, with white flower petals scattered on woven mats and a blue patterned mat in front. Red-and-white painted stone platforms surround the area.

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