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A photograph of an outdoor funeral or cremation-style ritual on reddish earth. A shrouded body wrapped in white cloth and garlanded with red and yellow flowers lies on a bamboo bier at the lower centre, its face painted with white markings. A bearded man with long dark hair, wearing a saffron-orange robe, a large gold pendant on a gold chain and rudraksha malas, kneels beside the bier. To his left a woman in an orange sari with a rudraksha mala and a bearded man in white stand with hands folded. On the right a shirtless man in a white dhoti holds a silver trident, and a crowd of onlookers in white and patterned shirts fills the background. A brass pot and flower offerings sit on the ground at the left.

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