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A photograph inside a small room at a KAILASA temple shrine. A seated priest with grey hair, bare-backed and wearing a white dhoti with gold border and a white sacred thread, performs puja on a green cloth in front of a shrine with golden arch. Three deity statues stand in the shrine: left and right figures in red and green clothing with crowns, centre figure holding a trident-like staff and a mace or implement. Two tall gold poles flank them, and an orange cloth hangs behind. To the right stands a large printed cutout of a bearded man in pink-and-red turban with a rudraksha-style garland and a ceremonial gold necklace, seated in a chair beside a decorated purple-clad figure. Brass puja vessels, lamps, a kalasha, flowers and a red plate sit on the green cloth. Wall text on a white box reads KAILASA TONDIARPET.

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