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A photograph inside a temple shrine. A shaven-headed man in red-orange draped robes with a gold-edged border stands at left, back partly turned, holding a silver lamp or aarti vessel with a lit flame and what appears to be a bell or lamp stand. In the centre stands a gold-coloured standing deity murti with raised right hand in abhaya mudra, set within an ornately carved gold arch framed by a golden kirtimukha-style top. Behind it are garlands of yellow, orange and purple flowers and a small silver kalasha-like finial at lower right. Brass vessels sit on the floor at left. The scene is a puja or aarti setting.

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