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Outdoors among palm trees and green foliage, a bearded man in a rust-brown robe and red-and-white flower garlands raises his right arm and holds a long thin rod or cord over a large carved wooden kalasha-style pot topped with a copper vessel, leaves and a bundle of dried grass. Two assistants stand beside him: one bare-chested in a saffron-orange dhoti with a beaded necklace, the other bare-backed in a white dhoti with yellow border. Flower garlands wrap the wooden vessel and its base. A golden tiered structure and a green signboard appear behind, with a camera operator visible at right. This appears to be a ritual performance with a ceremonial pot.

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