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A photograph inside a decorated shrine. A figure with long, loose dark hair in an orange-saffron robe kneels with palms pressed together in prayer before a deity murti draped in a red and gold garment, with flower garlands of yellow, red and white. Brass oil lamps stand on either side, and an offering tray sits on the floor in front. A bald man in white clothes with red pigment on his scalp kneels at the lower left. Behind the central murti stands another deity figure with garlands. The kneeling figure matches the robe and hair cues of a person in prayer, but the image alone does not confirm it.

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