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A photograph inside a small concrete temple room during a kumbabhishekam-style ritual. Along the left wall, a deity murti is decorated with orange and white flower garlands and a yellow cloth, with rows of coconuts, banana leaves and marigold garlands arranged on the floor before it. Oil lamps and brass plates with offerings sit on the ground. A man in an orange-saffron robe and orange head cloth, wearing a long yellow-and-orange garland, stands at center among devotees in white shirts, dhotis and striped shirts who watch quietly. A priest in a blue-purple cloth leans forward near the right foreground, and another person in white sits at the far right. Roughly fifteen people are visible.

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