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A photograph inside a pale blue-walled room decorated with marigold and multicolored flower garlands hanging from the ceiling. At the centre, a seated figure in an orange and saffron cloth with a matching orange head covering sits on an elaborately decorated platform heaped with garlands, flanked by a brass oil lamp (deepa). Around a dozen devotees stand with their backs to the camera, facing the shrine in darshan: a man in a grey cap and green shirt, an elderly man in a white shirt, women in saris including a yellow-green sari and a light blue patterned sari, a woman with a long braid and orange flower, and children at the lower left. Red curtains frame the doorway. The figure at the shrine appears to be a statue or deity murti rather than a living person, so no a person candidate is claimed.

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A photograph inside a small room with pale blue walls where a group of devotees stands in a row before a decorated altar. On the altar a seated deity murti in orange and red garments wears a crown-like orange headpiece and a garland of yellow and multicoloured flowers, with a brass oil lamp standing to its left. Yellow marigold garlands drape the altar's white base. Several devotees in white dhotis and shirts and in women's saris of red, blue, green and white, with braided hair and flowers, have their hands folded in prayer, while a man in white at the front right has his hands joined. Strings of flowers hang from the upper corners of the room.2010-02-18A photograph inside a small pale blue-walled room with a raised white platform. On the platform sits a white statue in orange robes with a crown-like orange headpiece and hands folded, draped with yellow and orange marigold garlands. 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