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A seated bearded man with long dark hair and a red tilak on his forehead sits before a large painted murti of Devi as Mahishasura Mardini, a lion beside her and a demon figure in green on the right. He wears a long garland of yellow marigolds, pink flowers and red roses, and a dark robe. A figure in an orange and yellow dhoti stands at the left edge, and another man in white with a mala is partly visible at the right. Brass vessels and red kumkum sit in the foreground on a blue base. a person is seated at the center, identified by a long swept-back hair, red tilak and ceremonial garland; the murti is a deity form of Mahishasura Mardini.

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