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Night photograph of an outdoor ritual setting. In the foreground two tall brass oil lamps (deepa) burn on a white-draped table laden with fruit, coconuts, heaps of kumkum and turmeric powder, and red flower garlands, with a small brass vessel beside them. At left, a shaven-headed man in white clothing sits on a purple cloth, his face bowed. On the right, an elaborately decorated deity murti of a lion-mounted goddess with a crowned figure, a tiger or lion sculpture, and a white-and-pink elephant-headed figure stands behind red and orange marigold garlands. Strings of small lights and a lamp-lit canopy frame the scene. Partially visible people in the lower left and right edges are in ritual attire. This appears to be a puja or homa setting for Chandi Homa.

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