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A group of about fifteen people posing together for a photo inside a yellow-walled temple room with exposed wooden beams, red carpets and colourful garlanded deity murtis and decorations along the walls. In the centre-right, a woman in a gold-bordered saffron-yellow sari with a red beaded necklace stands beside a man in a red shirt. Several people hold small red books and floral paper gift bags. A man in the back row wears a rudraksha-style red-brown beaded mala and a light garment. A man on the left holds a white cane. Behind them a large gilded arched shrine holds garlanded deity murtis. No one in the photo is identified.

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