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A covered outdoor ritual space with orange-painted walls and a corrugated roof hung with green leaf garlands and striped cloth tassels. In the centre stands a large deity murti of a goddess with multiple arms, seated on a lion, framed by a white ornamental arch and decorated with flower garlands; smaller white-framed deity images flank her. Several men in white dhotis and bare upper bodies sit on an orange mat before the altar, with brass oil lamps, plates of offerings, fruit, red flower petals, and bundled plant stalks in front. A standing priest in white attends the altar on the left, and a red velvet and gold chair stands empty to the right beside a framed portrait, with a large orange banner behind. The scene reads as a puja ritual; the seated participants are not clearly identifiable as any particular individual.

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