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Photo of a ritual offering inside a temple with gold-carved walls and a deity murti in a red-curtained niche. A priest bare-chested in a white dhoti with a blue border and a rudraksha mala stands at the center, one arm raised, with white ash markings on his body. In the foreground a devotee in a yellow-orange top watches from the left. A brass table holds a lit brass oil lamp, banana bunches, a pineapple, apples, grapes, a plate of cooked rice, a kalasha-style brass vessel, rose petals, and small steel bowls of offerings, draped with a magenta and purple silk cloth. Interpreted as puja/aarti offerings.

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