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A seated person in an orange-red dhoti and wrap with a rudraksha mala and gold necklace performs aarti with a flaming camphor lamp and a handbell before a decorated deity murti. The murti is draped in white and gold, garlanded with white jasmine and pink and red flowers, and a silver-topped shivalinga sits in front, also garlanded. The seated figure's dress, mala and gold ornaments are distinctive, but the face alone gives no basis for identification, so no name is asserted. A yellow satin cloth covers the altar, and a leopard-print cushion lies beneath the seated person. Another person stands partly visible at the right edge. The scene is a temple-style puja with a visible aarti flame.

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