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Night-time photograph of a temple ritual before a tiered stone stage lined with rows of seated black-stone murtis dressed in white and red garments and garlanded with yellow and orange marigolds. At the centre top, a multi-armed deity murti stands under a canopy of striped marigold garlands. A man seated cross-legged on a red-brown cloth, wearing a rudraksha mala and red-brown robe with palms pressed together in namaskar, sits at the centre front beside a microphone stand. Brass vessels and a lamp stand sit at the lower left and right, with a decorated palanquin at the left edge.

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