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A photograph inside a temple hall showing a bare-chested, white-bearded older man in a white dhoti placing his hand on the head of a younger man who bows with palms pressed together. The younger man wears an orange garment over a red top. Beside them stands a black stone deity murti with a green garland and a basket of fruit at the left edge. A gold-bordered cloth is draped over the bowing man's arm. An older bearded man in orange robes stands at the right, and other people are visible in the background. Signboards and a red poster are on the wall behind. The bare-chested figure has distinctive whitish-red body markings and no clearly distinctive a person cues sufficient to identify him, so no identification is made.

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A photo taken in an indoor temple-style hallway with polished floors, cream pillars and a blue roll-down shutter on the right. A bald, bearded elderly man in a white dhoti and white shoulder cloth, bare-chested, stands at left holding a folded paper. Facing him is a man with long swept-back dark hair wearing a saffron-orange shawl over a red top, with a gold-coloured necklace and a rudraksha-style mala, handing him the paper. Behind them stand people in white dhotis and yellow or orange shawls, a man in a white shirt with a lanyard, and a bare-chested man with vibhuti marks and a yellow-and-orange dhoti at right. A bearded man in glasses appears at the lower right. Printed notices and framed pictures are on the wall behind.2009-08-03August 03 20092009-08-03Indoor temple scene in a yellow-walled shrine with carved pillars. 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