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Outdoor ritual on an open dirt ground: a deity murti decorated with yellow and orange marigold garlands sits on a platform under a large multicoloured umbrella with tassels. A crowd of devotees in white clothes and yellow or orange shawls stands with palms pressed together in prayer around offerings of fruit and flowers. A man in white at the front holds a ritual vessel. A white bus with a person Ratham sign and parked vehicles are behind, with a dry field and trees beyond. The crowd is large but the visible people can be counted in the dozens.

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