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Two women sit cross-legged on a mat in a temple-like room with red-painted walls, performing a puja. Both wear white clothing with gold borders and orange-red shawls. The woman on the left, with grey-streaked hair and glasses, holds a lit oil lamp, and the woman on the right, with her hair pulled back, holds a second lamp and papers. Smoke from incense rises behind them. Brass and silver vessels, a bowl of red kumkum, plates of fruit and flowers, and small oil lamps sit on the mat in front of them. No a person candidate is visible.

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