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A photograph taken inside a shrine room with gold-painted doorframes and a grey stone-panelled back wall. A bare-backed person with dark hair and white ash marks on the back and arms stands at left, holding a lit lamp near a row of flickering oil lamps on the floor. At the back, a gold-framed arch holds a seated golden figure wrapped in maroon cloth and garlanded with yellow marigolds. In front, a Shiva lingam with a tripundra-marked white cover and a maroon cloth sits on a gold arched base draped with white and gold-bordered cloth and yellow flower garlands. A brass trident stands to the left, a brass lamp stand is in front, and a green cloth-covered object with a gold crown rests on a saffron cloth below. A timestamp reads 18-Sept-2024 6:01:29 pm, Hyderabad, Telangana.

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A photograph inside a gold-trimmed shrine doorway showing a priest seen from behind, bare-backed, with white sacred ash stripes on his shoulders and an orange cloth at his waist, holding a brass aarti plate with several lit oil lamps toward a shrine. Inside, a seated figure in a gold arch is garlanded with yellow marigolds, and a central deity murti draped in white and gold-bordered cloth is decorated with flower garlands. A gold trident stands at left and a green-cloth-covered object sits below. The scene suggests an aarti or puja. A timestamp reads 18-Sept-2024 6:04:11 pm, Hyderabad, Telangana.2024-09-18A photograph inside a gold-trimmed shrine niche. A bare-chested priest with long dark wavy hair and white stripe markings on his upper arm, wearing an orange cloth over his shoulder and an orange dhoti, raises a lit oil lamp with one hand toward a shrine. Behind him stands a brass trident and a brass oil lamp on a stand. 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