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A bare-chested priest with long dark hair and a white sacred-ash marking on his arms and chest stands at lower left, holding a lit multi-wick oil lamp aloft toward a shrine. Behind an altar of gold-trimmed, jewelled arches and red curtains stand multiple decorated deity murtis: a central figure in a red-and-gold crown with a bejewelled necklace and a female figure in a purple sari with garlands, flanked by a bearded sage-like figure in a maroon robe and rudraksha mala, and a green-turbaned figure on the left. A large Shiva lingam draped in a golden cloth and garlands sits in front, with brass lamps and a kalasha at the base. Garlands of white and orange flowers hang across the shrine. The event is a temple puja or aarti at the Los Angeles temple, a bare-chested priest offering lamp light.

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