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A photograph inside a bright, whitened hall where a long line of devotees sits on the floor in two rows facing the central aisle. Most women wear white or cream saris with gold borders, and several wear orange or saffron garments. Banana leaves with flowers, fruit and small offerings are laid before them, and brass oil lamps stand beside the leaves. The people have their palms pressed together in anjali. In the background and at the right, a figure in an orange robe stands near the wall. Other orange-clad attendants and onlookers stand farther back near an opening, and a young boy in a green shirt sits at the lower left. The scene suggests a puja or aarti in progress.

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