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Overhead photo of a Guru Purnima naivedyam offering laid out on a yellow cloth. Foil trays hold rice dishes, sweets, a salad, dates and cashews, with a steel pot, a bowl of apples, oranges, pears, bananas and pink flowers arranged around a gold-coloured hand or deity murti at the left edge. No people are visible.

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