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A bare-chested older man with short grey hair and a grey beard, wearing a white dhoti with a red-and-gold patterned waistband, stands on a blue stepladder and reaches up to touch the crown of a large dark stone deity murti. The murti is draped in a yellow cloth with red borders over a red bodice and wears a tall ornate crown and gold necklace. Behind them hang a red velvet backdrop, a large photographic print of a carved temple facade, a green, red and yellow decorated banner, and a hanging brass oil lamp at upper left. A small figure stands at the base of the murti. a person is not visibly identifiable from appearance, so this is a devotee performing a ritual on the murti.

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