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A photograph of a group of young and adult ritual participants seated on the floor during a puja. They wear saffron-orange dhotis and shawls with red and pink borders, rudraksha malas, and white and red tilaka marks on their foreheads and arms. Several hold long golden funnel-shaped cones, while others hold small silver vessels, and many silver bowls and pots sit on the floor in front of them. Some boys wear round eyeglasses. The setting is a white-tiled hall with red and cream floor mats. No identifiable individual is named, so the presence of a person cannot be confirmed from appearance; the seated participants are priests and young students.

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