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Indoor ritual under a white tent roof decorated with hanging colourful paper lanterns. A shirtless priest in white dhoti with a red-and-white cloth over his shoulder bows forward and holds a lit camphor lamp on a silver tray before a seated man. The seated man sits on an ornate gold throne with a sunburst back and lion armrests, wearing an orange-brown robe, a red headband, and a long multicolour flower garland, hands joined in namaskar. A fire pit with burning offerings is at lower left, and many white-clad devotees sit on the floor on striped mats, some with hands folded. The scene appears to be a Deepam-related aarti.

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