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A ritual scene in a hall with striped woven mats on the floor. Two priests sit cross-legged facing a square yellow-brown homa fire pit at right. The priest on the left wears a cream turban and a beaded mala necklace over white dhoti clothing; the priest in the centre, bare-chested with a beaded necklace, wears a cream turban and white dhoti. Brass lamps, brass vessels, a silver tray, bundles of sticks, coconuts and fruit surround them. Behind them a table holds a row of decorated kalasha pots with yellow and red cloth and a blue-clad murti. Seated devotees watch from chairs in the background, including women in green and yellow saris, and a red curtain frames the room.

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