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Night outdoor ritual photograph. A large deity murti is dressed with a dense garland of yellow, orange, red, green and purple flowers and sits on an ornate gold pedestal beneath a striped canopy with tassels. Two men sit on a white cloth at its base. The man on the left wears an orange robe, a decorative gold-patterned cap and gold bangles, and holds an object near the murti. The man on the right wears a white dhoti with a red border, gold necklace and wrist ornaments, and speaks into a handheld microphone. A gold plate sits on the cloth in front. Strings of lights and a dark structure appear behind.

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