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Night photograph of an outdoor shrine beneath a large banyan tree with lit lamps hanging in the branches. On the left a man in an orange-saffron robe holds a small lit flame or lamp aloft toward a shrine. Behind him several men in white ritual clothes stand in a row, one in a white shirt and light trousers, others in white dhotis and shirts. At right a dark stone or metal deity murti stands on a red-and-white painted pedestal, draped in white cloth and wearing a beaded necklace. In front of the pedestal a white-draped linga-shaped form with a golden hooded serpent above it sits on a stone platform, with a black-and-white patterned serpent figure coiled along the lower foreground and small oil lamps lit on the ground. A figure wearing a white turban and rudraksha-style beads sits near the right edge, but whether this is a living person or a statue is unclear.

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