A close-up photograph of food offerings on a red patterned cloth. In the foreground are round puffed-rice balls coated in golden syrup, with a brown ladoo-like ball behind them, all heaped in a perforated brass bowl. To the right are thin, pale, pressed flatbreads stacked beside a dark teal metal bowl on a brass plate. No people, deities or ritual fire are visible. - Nithyanandapedia

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A close-up photograph of food offerings on a red patterned cloth. In the foreground are round puffed-rice balls coated in golden syrup, with a brown ladoo-like ball behind them, all heaped in a perforated brass bowl. To the right are thin, pale, pressed flatbreads stacked beside a dark teal metal bowl on a brass plate. No people, deities or ritual fire are visible.

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