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A shirtless priest in white dhoti with a red-and-gold border stands at a silver shrine cabinet, holding a brass handbell in his left hand and gesturing with his right toward the open shrine. He has white sacred markings on his forehead and arms and a gold chain around his neck. Inside the cabinet is an open book on a red cloth. Above it hang a framed carved image and a small red framed picture. On a table draped in teal fabric sit brass plates with food offerings, a copper cup, a bunch of bananas on green leaves, and scattered pink petals. On the right, a row of small deity murtis in red garments with flower garlands stands along a shelf. A portable speaker with a glowing blue light sits in the centre. This is a puja at a shrine room with yellow-ochre walls.

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