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Photograph of a covered outdoor puja space at an ashram during a Ganesh festival. On the left, a large decorated Ganesha murti with an orange-painted trunk, wearing a red garland with yellow and orange flower strings, stands beside a brass lamp. In the foreground, several young men in saffron-orange clothes with orange head cloths sit on mats near a fire pit where a flame burns with flowers and offerings. A bare-chested priest with a saffron-orange turban and cloth sits at the fire on the right. Behind them, a row of about a dozen saffron-clad monastic disciples with orange head cloths stand with hands folded. On the right, a seated figure in red and gold clothing with a garland sits on a decorated golden throne under a striped canopy, with attendants standing nearby.

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