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A priest in a cream-coloured turban and white dhoti with a gold border sits bare-chested before a yellow brick homa fire pit, holding a silver bowl of petals. He wears a rudraksha mala with a gold-coloured neckpiece and a sacred thread. Around him on a steel table are offerings of bananas, apples, oranges, flower garlands, orange marigold petals and a blue cloth-wrapped kalasha. Brass oil lamps stand on a striped rug, and in the background a deity murti sits on a golden throne draped with flowers. Only the seated priest is a physical person.

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