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Outdoor ritual gathering on a paved courtyard with a fence and concrete rubble behind. Many men, mostly bare-chested or in white dhoti-style cloth with saffron-edged borders and rudraksha malas, sit cross-legged on striped red, green and blue mats. Two decorated saffron-and-red parasols stand upright at left and centre. A man with long dreadlocks wears a gold necklace and white cloth and bends forward over a brass plate near the centre. Other seated participants hold plates or cupped hands, and a woman in orange robes stands at the back. Water tanks sit on a structure at upper left.

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