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Outdoor temple ritual at night beneath strings of multicoloured fairy lights along a pillared pavilion. Several men in traditional south Indian attire stand before an ornate golden deity murti or throne-like shrine heaped with red and yellow flower garlands. A bald man in white dhoti with a saffron-orange shawl and a rudraksha mala holds a woven basket of red flowers. Beside him a shirtless man with a grey beard and white dhoti with green-bordered cloth stands with folded hands. Another man in a red garment with blue cloth holds a tray of red petals, and white flower garlands hang at the right edge. Brass vessels and a lamp sit on the floor in front. The scene looks like an abhishekam or puja. None of the men is identifiable as a person from appearance cues shown here, so no candidate is asserted.

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