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Night photograph at a stone temple shrine with a carved granite pillar and a stone pedestal with a lion relief, where oil lamps burn at the base. A man with long dark hair, wearing a rust-red robe and a white flower garland, bows with his palms pressed together and forehead touching the stone ledge. Behind him, a crowd of devotees in white, green and red clothing watches, one man in a red shawl with a rudraksha mala and an officer in khaki stands at the right. Strings of coloured lights decorate the temple walls and a lit chariot-like structure glows in the background.

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