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Outdoor temple ritual in a garden setting with palm trees. A tall decorated kalasha-style sculpture with a thatched top and carved stone base stands on a striped cloth draped with marigold petals. A bearded man with long dark hair wears a rust-brown dhoti and a red-and-yellow flower garland with a rudraksha-style mala, holding a small bell and an offering vessel while performing abhishekam. Beside him, a second man in an orange saffron dhoti holds a silver pot and a lamp-like vessel. Behind them, a row of people in white clothes stand with hands folded in prayer. The scene is a puja at an outdoor shrine. The bearded man's appearance is a person based on long swept hair, flower garland and ritual role, so a person is set to in_person.

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