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A painted mural inside an old palace hall shows a courtly scene of richly dressed men seated and standing around a low wooden table with a game board. Figures wear yellow dhoti-style garments, pearl necklaces and tall pointed golden crowns, with bare torsos and armbands. A dark arched niche with a carved throne sits behind them, framed by red and blue decorative panels. Wooden scaffolding stands in the left foreground, and the faded red border surrounds the wall painting. The figures are painted depictions, not living people, and no a person candidate is clearly identifiable.

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