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Indoor temple-room scene in a plain tiled room with pale blue walls. A man in an orange turban and orange dhoti-style wrap, with a white flower garland, performs an aarti-style flame offering with a brass lamp at a shrine. Garlands of white jasmine and yellow and orange flowers drape a black stone linga-form deity murti on the right, with brass plates of flowers and offerings on a tray in front. Standing behind him, a man in white clothes folds his hands in prayer, and people in white and yellow clothes stand near the doorway and a curtain, with another orange-clad person at the left edge. Visible people: about six.

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