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Outdoor temple courtyard with a red stepped shrine holding a black Nandi bull statue garlanded with orange and yellow marigolds, palm trees behind. A man in saffron-orange robes with rudraksha mala and tripundra marks sits cross-legged at the centre of a chalk-drawn kolam with flower petals, a brass oil lamp before him. Several men in white dhoti and shawls sit meditatively on small mats within circular ash or sand platforms to the right, one in saffron. Smoke rises from a fire pit in the background. The posture is seated meditation or puja. The central figure's appearance is consistent with the page's a person label but is not distinctive enough to confirm.

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