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A dim hall filled with floating white powder. Several people with white-powdered faces and bodies wear red and saffron cloth with gold borders. A bald man in the centre, wrapped in a saffron-orange cloth, raises a silver trident high in his right hand. Around him, others lift their arms and face the centre, and a child in the foreground looks up at him. A framed portrait hangs on the back wall beside red curtains, and a grey-robed figure stands at the right edge. The scene looks like a Shivaratri observance.

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