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A seated woman in orange robes with a white forehead mark and folded hands sits before a shrine decorated with floral garlands. Above her, a large framed image of a robed figure with a turban and trident is garlanded, flanked by framed portraits also wreathed in flowers. Around her on red and green cloths are dozens of small bowls holding grains, powders, nuts, seeds and sweets, plus brass oil lamps, a brass vessel, a flower-draped kalasha, and a silver tray with a bundle of white fibres. A white sign reads KAILASA TIRUVANNAMALAI SRI NITHYANANDA JANMABHUMI. A painted panel of deity figures hangs on the left wall.

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