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A home altar set up for paduka puja, photographed indoors. A framed photograph in a gold frame shows a smiling man in an orange robe and beaded necklace, one hand raised, seated before a banyan tree's roots; the portrait is not a physical person present. Beside it, a Shiva image shows a blue-skinned deity with trident and a white bull. In front, a folded maroon cloth with a jewelled brooch sits on a silver-edged wooden platform, flanked by smaller printed images of a seated figure in orange robes on a golden throne. Offerings include yellow flowers, white jasmine, blue blossoms, a lit oil lamp, a small bowl of food, a copper kalasha-style item, brass deity figurines and a dice-like cube on a glass table. No physical people are visible.