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A bare-chested priest in white dhoti stands at right in a shrine room with mustard-yellow walls, holding a brass oil lamp lit with a flame toward a row of black stone deity murtis on a grey plinth. The central figure wears a red cloth and garland, and the figures at left and right wear blue, purple and green cloths and garlands. The priest holds a brass bell in his other hand, a rudraksha mala and sacred thread visible, with white ash markings on his chest and arms, performing an aarti offering in the garbhalaya.

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