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A photograph of a ritual scene in a hall. On the left, a woman in a brown-and-gold sari raises a hand holding pink flower petals and scatters them toward the right. Her wrists wear gold bangles and she has a long braid. In the centre stands a gold-framed arched shrine with a green cloth backdrop, holding a small deity murti draped in a white and orange garland. On the right, a large deity murti wearing a white crown and an elaborate multi-strand necklace is dressed in a dense garland of red roses, yellow marigolds and purple blossoms, with a green and gold cloth canopy above. Loose petals drift through the air.

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