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A devotee kneels on a white cloth before a golden throne-style chair, hands raised in namaskar-like gesture toward an altar. The devotee wears a striped orange-and-cream kurta and white dhoti with green border, hair tied back. Behind the chair, a seated figure in orange garments is partly visible. The altar features large painted murtis of a deity couple, one in orange turban and gold ornaments with a multi-armed form, the other crowned, adorned with yellow and orange garlands and a pink skirt, beside a gold kalasha-like vessel with a cobra hood motif. Small blue-robed figures stand in golden niches on both sides, with brass oil lamps at the sides and fruit on red-lidded trays. This is a photograph; the seated figure is not clearly identifiable.

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