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A photograph of a temple shrine during worship. In the centre, a dark stone deity murti stands in a golden arched niche decorated with a crown-like gold finial, draped with a white flower garland and a pink flower on its head, with oil lamps burning in front. On the left, a bald elderly priest with bare shoulders wears a red-orange cloth and a beaded headband and gold armlets, leaning forward to hold an arati or lamp toward the deity. On the right, a younger man in a white dhoti and shawl with gold borders stands with his hands folded in prayer, wearing glasses. Brass lamps and a brass vessel sit at the base of the shrine against a marble wall. The scene reads as a puja or aarti at a shrine.

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