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Photograph from behind of a person with long dreadlocked hair wearing a white jasmine garland, kneeling before a large black stone panchamukhi deity murti of Hanuman with multiple faces and arms, in a shrine lined with polished reddish-brown stone. To the left, a man with short hair and a beard, bare-shouldered and wearing a white cloth, kneels in devotion. The scene suggests a puja at the Panchamukhi Anjaneya temple. The dreadlocked figure is shown only from the back, so there is no visible face or distinctive presentation cue beyond the hair and garland.

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