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Photograph inside a temple hall with bright painted guardian figures flanking a central doorway. A seated figure on a gold throne draped with a striped cloth sits in the doorway, wearing a red garment and beads, with hands raised in a blessing gesture. On the left, a shaved-headed priest in red-orange robes holds up a tiered brass aarti lamp with lit flames. Two women in orange saris sit on the floor beside him near small instruments. Two women in sarees sit on chairs at the right, one in yellow-orange and one in brown. Brass lamps stand along the floor, and a gold-and-red seated figure on a low platform appears in the foreground centre. The scene shows an aarti and puja being performed.

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