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Photograph of a home shrine room with an ornately carved dark wooden altar cabinet against a pale wall. Framed printed deity pictures hang above a row of small silver murtis, and the shelves are decorated with white jasmine garlands and fresh flowers. Brass lamps, a brass kalasha-style vessel, and a bowl of petals sit on the altar. On the floor in front a tray holds a brass lamp, a brass bell, and a plate of apples, bananas and mangoes, with a flower-filled bowl beside it. A framed picture of a sun-bearing deity rides a chariot pulled by horses at right. No people are visible.

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