A man sits cross-legged on a woven mat on dry red earth, playing a pair of drums with his hands. He wears a white kurta and dhoti with a yellow shawl draped over his shoulders and a rudraksha mala around his neck, plus a gold bangle on his wrist. Beside him a second drummer in white clothes plays a drum, and dry shrubs with small white flowers grow along the slope. - Nithyanandapedia

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A man sits cross-legged on a woven mat on dry red earth, playing a pair of drums with his hands. He wears a white kurta and dhoti with a yellow shawl draped over his shoulders and a rudraksha mala around his neck, plus a gold bangle on his wrist. Beside him a second drummer in white clothes plays a drum, and dry shrubs with small white flowers grow along the slope.

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