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Inside a temple shrine, a shirtless man in a white dhoti with a gold border stands bending over a deity murti of Devi Visalakshi, decorated with blue and gold garments and garlands of yellow marigolds and red roses. He holds a small lamp or arati flame and a spouted vessel while performing puja. Behind the goddess are dark-stone deity murtis adorned with white and red garlands, and a golden arched prabhavali frame. Brass and silver puja plates with fruit, sweets, kumkum, a folded blue silk cloth and gold jewellery sit on an orange cloth in the foreground, with a row of small brass lamps on the right.

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