A small copper oil lamp with a lit flame sits on a copper plate on a concrete floor. Beside it lie a magenta rose and a white-and-yellow frangipani flower. Behind them is a rangoli or kolam design drawn in white, red, yellow, green and blue powder. The setting is a dim, shadowed corner with a plain stone wall at the right edge. No people are visible. - Nithyanandapedia

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A small copper oil lamp with a lit flame sits on a copper plate on a concrete floor. Beside it lie a magenta rose and a white-and-yellow frangipani flower. Behind them is a rangoli or kolam design drawn in white, red, yellow, green and blue powder. The setting is a dim, shadowed corner with a plain stone wall at the right edge. No people are visible.

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