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A photograph of a stone-pillared temple shrine at a festival, with a central deity murti and two standing figures flanked by garlands of yellow and orange marigolds and multicoloured floral arches. In the foreground, a figure in a large dark turban and red-orange robe with a yellow-and-red garland stands at a stone platform, reaching toward offerings in a plate, while devotees around them in white and red clothes, some with white-painted faces, take part in the ritual. A man in a white dhoti with a saffron shawl and another in white stand at the left, and several women in saffron and pink saris are at the bottom edge. The scene suggests a padapuja-style ceremony at a shrine.

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