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A young boy in a pale green kurta and dark trousers stands on a woven mat holding a brass tray with a lit oil lamp and yellow marigold flowers. Seated women and children around him in saris and salwar kameez, including a woman in a maroon sari with raised cupped hands, watch and take part in the aarti. Behind them, several black stone deity murtis in orange robes with red garlands sit on a shelf, and a large golden deity figure stands at the left edge beside blue lighting.

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