A woman in an orange sari with a maroon border sits cross-legged and holds a small silver oil lamp with a lit flame in both hands. She has slicked-back dark hair, a white vertical tilak and a red dot on her forehead, a gold nose stud, gold bangles and a dark rudraksha mala. Her eyes are lowered toward the flame. The background is a pale stone floor with a blue cloth in the lower left. - Nithyanandapedia

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A woman in an orange sari with a maroon border sits cross-legged and holds a small silver oil lamp with a lit flame in both hands. She has slicked-back dark hair, a white vertical tilak and a red dot on her forehead, a gold nose stud, gold bangles and a dark rudraksha mala. Her eyes are lowered toward the flame. The background is a pale stone floor with a blue cloth in the lower left.

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