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Indoor puja in a plain whitewashed room with a barred window. A person in an orange turban, orange robe and white jasmine garland holds a lit brass oil lamp (aarti) toward a small offering table. Beside them a man in orange robes with an orange shawl holds a brass bell. On the table are brass lamp stands, a flower garland, a plate of sand or grain with a red offering, banana-leaf packets and a brass vessel, with a pineapple at the lower left. The scene reads as a ritual aarti in a small shrine room.

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