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A woman seated on a golden chair in a temple hall is receiving a padapuja-style ritual as a second person kneels before her feet on a round brass plate. She wears a magenta and pink silk saree with a purple border, a blue blouse, a heavy gold necklace with a pendant, multiple gold bangles, and a red bindi. Her bare feet, painted with alta, rest on the brass plate. Another woman in a red blouse and blue saree sits to the right, and a person in a white and yellow cloth covers the left foreground, pouring from a vessel. Behind them an altar displays a decorated deity murti, flower garlands, small figurines and a sign reading KAILASA HYDERABAD. Red carpet covers the floor.

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Four women sit in a row on a yellow-draped seat: a woman in a pink-and-gold saree, a woman in a blue saree with a red border and gold necklace, a woman in a pink saree with silver border at the far right, and a woman in a purple top partly visible behind. Behind them stands a tiered tower of marigold and multicoloured flower garlands, and gold-painted pillars and hanging garlands frame the hall. A brass plate with flowers and small bowls sits at right on a red cloth. Five women are visible in total.A photograph of a padapuja ritual in a temple hall. Women in silk saris sit on a red cloth; a priest with a bare upper body and white dhoti bends forward, washing the feet of a seated woman in a red and gold sari with a brass thali beneath her feet. Another woman in a pink and white sari with gold necklaces sits nearby, and an orange-saried woman waits to the side. 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