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A seated group of devotees performs a ritual with brass and silver puja vessels, small oil lamps, flower petals and fruit plates arranged on a long low table. Foreground young women in saffron-orange robes with rudraksha malas and white forehead marks hold their hands together or raise an offering, while women in maroon and red saris sit among them. Older women in white saris with dark prayer beads sit behind them, and a red carpet runs along the right edge beside white stanchions. Background rows of seated and standing attendees fill a hall with a counter at the top.

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