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A photograph of a seated group of devotees in a yellow-walled shrine room performing a puja before three large decorated deity murtis on a raised altar draped in green and maroon cloth with garlands. A bare-chested man in white dhoti sits at the central puja arrangement with brass lamps and offerings, facing the group. Around him, a woman in a peach-patterned kurta, a woman in a teal-and-green sari, and several men and children sit on black and blue mats. Brass plates hold flowers, a kalasha-style vessel and offerings in the foreground.

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