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A photograph of a temple shrine with a dark stone altar and gold-framed niche. A deity murti draped in an orange and gold silk sari sits on a black stone pedestal decorated with marigolds and pink flowers, and a second small figure in a purple and gold sari stands at right beside a green silk-wrapped base. In the foreground a hand holding a wooden spoon serves food from a brass vessel. A cloth runner in striped colours holds brass bowls of white rice, orange and yellow dal and curry, a green chutney, a bowl of fried vegetable fritters, a brass lota and a brass lamp on a tray. No people are visible other than the hand.

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