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Nighttime photo of a temple-style stage with gold-framed arches and maroon curtains. Behind a central golden peetha, a deity murti with gold crown and garlands sits with a consort, flanked by golden standing figures wrapped in flower garlands. A bearded man in saffron-orange clothing and a rudraksha mala sits on a red-and-white throne before a low fire pit, with a camera on a tripod pointed at him. Two bare-chested men in orange head cloths and dhotis sit to his left beside an offering fire. In the foreground, many people sit on the floor: bald men with bare upper bodies in white dhotis, and women in white or purple saris. A brass lamp and a yellow-and-orange kalasha-like offering sit on a patterned cloth below the throne, with fans set around the stage.