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A photograph of an outdoor evening aarti at a riverside festival, with a crowd and red and gold ceremonial umbrellas in the background. A central figure in a saffron-orange turban and saffron robe, wearing a rudraksha mala and ornate gold necklaces, holds a large brass aarti lamp with a flaming wick and cobra-hood handle, offering it upward. a person is shown performing the aarti, with cues of the saffron turban, saffron robe, rudraksha mala and gold necklaces. To the left, a bald man in orange robes and a gold-and-rudraksha necklace stands beside a gold-framed chair. Beside the lamp, a man in orange with a red scarf watches. On the right, a man in yellow kurta with a tilak claps his hands. Other devotees with phones and raised arms fill the background.

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