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Night-time outdoor ritual before a dark stone Nandi bull statue seated on a pedestal, adorned with a garland of pink and yellow flowers across its head and a beaded necklace. A figure seen from behind, bare-backed with an orange saffron cloth wrapped over the shoulder, raises a lit oil lamp or aarti flame high in the right hand, with a gold bangle on the wrist and white ash markings on the arm. Dense green foliage and string lights glow in the background, and scattered flower petals lie at the base of the statue. The figure's face is not visible, so no identity can be assigned from appearance.

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