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A photograph taken at night inside a temple shrine. Seven men in white ritual clothes stand with their backs to the camera, facing a golden-framed shrine. Inside the shrine stands a deity murti with an orange and red dress and a crown, flanked by a second figure and a coiled serpent, with brass oil lamps and a red curtain on either side. The men appear to be in devotional worship before the deity, with some wearing black-and-white cord necklaces. No identifiable a person is visible in this image.

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