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Evening outdoor ritual at a riverside festival setting with an illuminated temple structure and tall red-and-gold ritual pole behind. A central man in a saffron-orange turban and saffron robe, wearing layered rudraksha malas and ceremonial gold-bead necklaces, holds a brass aarti lamp with burning flame and smoke. Around him, a man in white dhoti with gold-bead necklace stands at left, a bald man in maroon-brown robes with malas stands beside him, a man in bright orange kurta with red shawl and rudraksha mala stands to the right, and a man in white kurta with raised hand gestures on the right. Orange umbrellas and a trident-topped pole appear in the background, with a crowd of devotees behind. Swamiji (probable): the central figure in saffron turban and rudraksha malas performing the aarti.

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