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Outdoor evening scene at an ashram courtyard with a red wall, green gate and trees behind. A man in an orange dhoti and orange shawl bends low to light small oil lamps or lit wicks set in a red-brown earthen ground, with smoke rising. Beside him a man in a white dhoti with a bare upper body and a garland of rudraksha stands holding a stick. To the left, a shaven-headed man in orange robes and rudraksha mala walks past. At the right, a woman in white sari holds her hands together in prayer. Behind them, several men in white and light robes stand near the covered walkway, one wearing a red-and-white rudraksha mala. The setting suggests a puja or lamp-lighting ritual.

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