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A night-time photograph of a row of painted stone guardian statues seated on a raised plinth before a temple wall. The foremost figures wear crowns with cobra hoods, large moustaches, beaded necklaces, jewelled armlets and ornate painted garments in green, red, blue and gold. Smaller black placards with tamil lettering sit on the plinth below them, and carved temple gopuram sculpture rises at right behind a metal grille. No living people are visible in the scene; a single partially visible figure stands at the far left edge. a person or a person is not visibly present in this image.