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Outdoor temple ritual before a stone shrine with a deity murti adorned with multicolored flower garlands and gold-trimmed red and magenta cloth. Two men in white dhoti and kurta with yellow shawls stand at a stone platform; one holds his hands in anjali while the other offers a lamp or arati flame toward the deities. A woman in white sits at the right with hands folded in prayer. Seated devotees, mostly children and adults, watch from the foreground. Red and orange draped cloth frames the shrine, and a sheet-covered table sits at left. Ornate carvings line the stone pillars.

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