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Outdoor temple ritual at a riverside shrine in Uttarkashi, with a brass deity murti on a low wooden platform in the centre. A young man with long dark hair, wearing an orange cloth and bare-chested with gold bangles, pours or offers from a brass vessel beside brass pots, a bowl of marigold petals and an oil lamp. Seated devotees wear orange and saffron robes, and a man in white kurta with an orange shawl sits behind the platform. Standing and seated onlookers in orange, saffron and white fill the steps and a covered terrace; a zebra-striped cushioned seat, a red shrine wall and a painted deity image are visible in the background. The appearance of the bare-chested man with long hair and adornments is consistent with a person candidate, but this is uncertain from the image alone.

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