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Photograph of devotees at a golden-yellow carved temple door studded with small brass bells, with green and white-flower garlands hanging beside it. In the foreground a woman in a red-orange silk sari with gold border has her shoulder touched by a bare-chested man in a teal dhoti with a sacred thread across his back, who reaches toward the door. Beside him a second bare-chested man in a white dhoti with orange top cloth also reaches up to the garland. At the right edge a brass pot sits on a low ledge near the threshold. A woman in a white sari with gold border stands at the far left edge. The scene suggests a temple door-opening or door-blessing ritual.

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