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A dark stone deity murti. It wears an orange cloth wrapped on top and a blue cloth around the body, with a gold and jewelled band across the front and a gold-and-stone yoke or base. Strings of brown rudraksha beads hang across it. Thick garlands in red, yellow, purple, white and green flowers frame the murti, and a gold five-hooded serpent hood with green stone earrings sits above. A jewelled necklace lies in the lower right foreground. No people are visible in the main frame apart from a partial blue turban at the lower right edge.

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