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Outdoor photo beside a blue-and-orange temple wall. A bald, bespectacled man in white dhoti and shoulder cloth with a red-bordered edge, wearing a rudraksha mala and a wristwatch, sits on a stone bench and hands a small bowl of food to a young boy in a red-and-white checked shirt and yellow shorts. A steel vessel sits on the bench beside them. Behind, a woman in an orange-bordered white sari stands at the doorway, and figures are visible inside a shrine area with floral garlands. The scene looks like a distribution of prasad or food offering.

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