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A ceremonial wedding ritual inside a temple-style hall with a painted blue wall and colourful pillars. On the left, a priest with a shaved head, bare torso and white sacred markings holds a lit oil lamp beside a gold-framed throne draped in green cloth and garlanded. In the centre, a gold throne decorated with red, yellow and white flower garlands holds a deity murti. On the right, a gold-and-purple throne is garlanded with red and yellow flowers and holds a deity murti wearing a crown and ornaments, with an orange cloth behind it. In front, a man in white dhoti and turban stands with hands joined in namaskar, and another man in white with white garland and folded hands stands beside the right throne. A small fire burns in a pit at the lower left.

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