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Indoor photo in a temple-style hall with framed devotional posters and a tanjore-style painting on the right wall. A man in white shirt and dhoti with a wristwatch stands center-right, palms pressed together in conversation. Beside him, a long-haired person in saffron/orange robes gestures toward a bearded elderly man in a cream shawl and white dhoti with a pearl mala, who stands on the left. Another saffron-robed person on the far right holds a folded red-and-pink cloth, and a man in a white shirt and dhoti stands behind them with a garland of flowers in hand. A few more men in white and light shirts stand in the background, and a white-clad attendant stands on the far left. A printed sign on a glass display case reads 'Peetham Sri Kapila Naga Vadhanasa...' in part. Stone and vinyl floor, bright indoor lighting.

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A woman in white stands in the background near the doorway, which is draped with a navy cloth.2009-08-08A photograph of a group of men standing together inside a temple hall with arched yellow columns and a painted deity panel behind them. In the centre, a young man in an orange-red saffron robe and a gold pendant necklace stands with hands clasped, with a dark-red tilak on his forehead. To his right, a bearded elder in orange robes wears a rudraksha mala and a white forehead band, and beside him a man in an orange head-wrap and robe stands. On the far right, an older man with glasses wears a multicoloured floral shawl. On the left, a bare-chested older man wears a yellow dhoti and a red wrist string, and a younger man in a white shirt and orange waist cloth stands nearby. Several other people stand in the background. 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