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A photograph of a temple ritual inside a decorated hall with a blue-and-green painted backdrop. In the centre, a priest in a bare-chested red-orange cloth crouches beside a low fire pit of yellow blocks, with smoke rising. Two attendants in white dhotis and white turbans stand at the right, one lifting garlands toward a deity murti draped in magenta cloth, adorned with red-and-yellow marigold garlands and a jewelled crown. A seated figure on a gilded throne with floral garlands sits at the back left. Offerings of bananas, fruit and coconut sit on silver trays on the floor, and a yellow block lies in the foreground.

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