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Indoor temple ritual in a hall with cream walls and framed photographs. A woman in an orange sari with a dark beaded necklace holds a lit oil lamp and offering on the left. Beside her, a bald man with glasses, bare-chested, wears a white dhoti with a rudraksha mala, and several other people in white or casual clothes stand in a line holding small lamps and offerings. A golden lamp stand, brass plates of lit diyas, and metal bowls of food sit on maroon-draped tables. Behind them, rows of dark deity murtis line shelves, and a bull statue rests near the gold-decorated edge of the room. Several people stand in a queue for the ritual.

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