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A priest in a cream dhoti and a rudraksha mala stands at a home shrine with a bright yellow wall, bending forward to offer worship with a lit flame and oil lamps on a white tiled altar. Behind the altar, a large printed portrait of a figure in a red turban, a pearl and gold necklace and a red-brown garment is framed by a decorative arch with red and orange flower garlands and small colourful lamp stickers. The altar holds a copper-framed picture, brass lamps, a kalasha-like pot, metal plates with offerings, a small brass cup, and several small deity figurines in blue and gold. The scene shows an alankar and neivedyam puja in progress. The priest is a person in ritual dress, not the portrait subject, and the portrait is a printed depiction.

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