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Night-time outdoor puja before a dark stone deity murti draped in heaped yellow, red, green and white garlands under a white cloth canopy with gold repousse panels. A priest in saffron-orange dhoti and shawl, wearing an ornate gold-and-red jewelled headpiece, stands with his back to the camera and lifts the white cloth above the deity. Below, a dark red cloth covers the platform. In the foreground are offering trays with fruit, a bowl of coconut and bananas, a brass lamp, incense sticks, kumkum and vibhuti in small bowls, and a small brass vessel. An ornate multicoloured umbrella with red fringe hangs overhead.

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