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A photograph of a shrine within a stone temple structure. A shaven-headed priest in an orange-yellow cloth and orange shawl stands in the lower left, holding up a multi-tiered brass lamp (aarti) toward the deities. Behind him is a golden arched niche containing a central deity murti with a red headdress and a green-clad goddess figure seated on a red-draped platform, flanked by two standing figures in red and gold dress and one in a fur-trimmed dark outfit. Garlands of pink and magenta flowers hang over a shivalinga-like lingam at the base, with brass oil lamps on both sides. The scene shows an aarti offering before the deity murtis.

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