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Indoor ritual scene at a home shrine with framed deity images and garlands on a shelf above. A woman in a red-and-white flower garland and gold earrings, seen from behind, hands papers to a kneeling man in a white shirt and dark trousers with a rudraksha mala and wristwatch. Beside him a woman in a cream sari with a mustard border kneels with a folded paper. A shaved-headed young priest in saffron cloth stands in the background, and a man in a white dhoti with gold-bordered cloth and rudraksha beads gestures upward with a raised finger. Bowls of fruit, oil lamps and white flowers sit on the floor. Nobody in the image is identified by face.

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