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A photograph of colourful temple utsava murti figures displayed on wooden stands under an open pavilion roof. In the foreground a red-faced, moustached Kalabhairava-type guardian figure with a green and gold torso holds a rudraksha-like red garland and a staff, beside a white bull-mounted Shiva figure with gold necklaces and a decorated gold arch. Behind them a deity with a red garland sits in a gold-and-white ornamented palanquin with a red cloth, and a golden lion-like figure and decorated umbrella stand at the right.

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