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A photograph inside a covered hall decorated with mango leaf festoons and umbrellas, showing a ritual aarti. A man in an orange dhoti and red top, wearing a white flower garland and a gold headband, holds a lit lamp toward a deity murti in front. A man in a saffron robe stands nearby, and a line of drummers in white dhotis plays drums to the right beside a painted bull with a red and white decorated arch. Two men in white stand near the lamp-bearer, and a tall gold staff is at the left edge. The murti is adorned with garlands and sits on a red-draped platform. A red and gold throne-like chair sits in the foreground. Scattered white and yellow flowers are visible at the bottom right. The man in the orange dhoti and red top, wearing a white garland and a gold headband, is the central figure; the man in the saffron robe and the lamp-bearer are in the scene but their identities are not established.

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