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Outdoor night photograph of a ritual at a temple courtyard lit by string lights. A seated elder in orange-saffron cloth with a white forehead mark sits on a wooden bench, hands folded at the lap. Beside him a man in a red-maroon dhoti, gold necklace and red-orange turban sits with hands together. Behind them a row of standing men in maroon robes wear white-and-gold garlands and forehead marks. A bare-chested priest in white dhoti sits at left, and a man in orange cloth sits at lower centre, facing the seated figures. Festoon lights and a camera operator complete the scene.

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