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Evening puja in a temple hall with a carved stone pillar and wooden lattice windows. A man with swept-back long dark hair and red-orange ochre robes, wearing a red and pink flower garland, holds a lit camphor aarti lamp toward a deity murti. Behind him a priest in white dhoti and white shawl with a flower garland holds the flame, and a bald priest in orange robes and rudraksha mala holds a brass plate. The deity murti sits under a hooded serpent canopy, draped in pink and red flower garlands, on a teal and gold cloth-covered peetha. Brass lamp stands stand in the foreground. Smoke rises from the lamp.

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