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A photograph of a Hindu temple shrine during a puja for a deity murti in an ornate gilded arch backed by a blue drape with a green cloth. The standing murti is adorned with a crown, a layered jewelled necklace, long garlands and a sari-like orange and turquoise garment. Two priests stand at the shrine: a bare-chested priest on the left in an orange upper cloth and white dhoti raises a lit oil lamp toward the deity, and a second priest on the right in a white dhoti holds a small bell and stands beside the murti. Brass lamps, a brass vessel, white flower arrangements and pink and yellow flowers decorate the altar in front of the deity.

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