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Outdoor bhumi puja ceremony at a red-brick building complex. A man with long dark hair and a beard, wearing a maroon-brown robe, a long multicolour flower garland and a rudraksha mala, stands barefoot over a row of wet red bricks while holding a small golden bowl and reaching out with one hand. Beside him a bare-chested man in a white dhoti with a yellow border holds a yellow cloth, and a bare-chested assistant in orange cloth stands at left. A golden umbrella with red, green and blue tassels shades the scene, and onlookers in orange and red clothing watch from behind.

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