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Outdoor photo under a large banyan tree with hanging aerial roots. In the centre, an orange and white deity murti stands beneath a white arched shrine frame, decorated with an orange garland, on a dark pedestal. Several seated devotees in white shirts and dhotis sit on a stone platform facing the shrine, their backs to the camera. Women in saris and a man in white shirt walk on the dirt path at right, and a man in a brown shirt sits at left-centre. The overall setting suggests darshan under the tree.

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