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A photograph inside a temple shrine room with gold-painted walls and a red curtain at the right edge. A large dark stone Ganesha murti stands on a black platform, wearing a gold crown, a purple and pink silk drape, and long garlands of red and white flowers. Three men in white dhotis face the deity. The central priest in a cream turban and white dhoti holds a lit oil lamp toward the murti, while the man at left stands with palms pressed together and white markings on his bare shoulders and back. The man at right, bare-backed with a cream turban and red-bordered white dhoti, stands in devotion. Brass plates with fruit and offerings sit on the platform, and a multicoloured tassel hanging decoration rises behind the deity. This appears to be a puja or aarti offering to Ganesha.

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