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Outdoor festival scene on a dirt path beside thatched and tarpaulin-roofed stalls, with palm trees overhead. A figure in saffron-orange robe and a beaded necklace walks barefoot across a strip of dark glowing coals or hot embers laid in a shallow trench, as in a fire-walking rite. Around the trench, lines of devotees in white dhotis and white saris stand behind ropes, with people in orange and green saris among them. Drummers in white with drums and a man at the right wear white clothing and ID lanyards. A woman in a white sari with a long braid stands in the foreground facing the trench, and a red bucket sits near the edge.

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