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A bare-chested man with long dark hair and a full beard, wearing a rudraksha mala and an orange-brown cloth, holds a brass vessel of burning incense sticks toward a large blue-skinned deity murti of Kali with a protruding red tongue, white crown and yellow marigold garlands. Smoke rises from the sticks. Behind them a brass oil lamp and offerings sit on a green leaf-covered floor, a second robed figure stands in the background, and a projected screen shows a map and an illustrated figure. The man's appearance with mala and long hair is a person candidate performing aarti before the murti, so this is an in-person figure.

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