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Night-time temple ritual in a covered courtyard with orange-striped flooring and a row of colourful pillar banners behind. A bearded man with long dark hair, bare-chested and wearing a rudraksha mala and rust-orange cloth, stands at right extending his hands in blessing toward a golden-draped figure with pink and white flower garlands at left. Four young men in saffron-orange robes, rudraksha malas and dark turbans with white tilak stand in a row holding silver trays and flowers, one with incense smoke rising. Behind them drummers in orange robes play large white drums while a crowd of devotees watches. Swamiji (probable): the bearded man at right wears long hair, a rudraksha mala and a rust-orange shawl, a distinctive presentation, performing the ritual.

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