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Indoor photo of a devotional ritual in a plain room with pale yellow walls and a tiled floor. In the foreground a bare-chested priest in white dhoti with a gold border bends over a steel tray of flowers and offerings, with oil lamps placed nearby. Around him stand several women devotees with hands pressed in anjali: a woman in a red saree holding a baby, a woman in a green saree, a woman in a pink salwar, and a woman in a purple saree. A child in a red top stands among them. At left a bare-chested man with a rudraksha-style mala stands beside a red pillar, partly visible. A gold framed deity murti hangs on the wall at upper right. A visible photo shows the man at left, but his appearance gives no sufficient cues for identification. The scene shows an abhishekam-style puja performed for the assembled devotees.

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