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Four devotees sit on a dark cloth on a bare grey floor, threading bangles onto orange and yellow strings for an alankaram offering. A man on the right is bare-chested, wearing a dhoti, a rudraksha mala and a white tripundra on his forehead, and works with an orange thread roll. A girl in a blue blouse and green skirt threads bangles at the centre, a woman in a maroon top works at left, and a small child in a green outfit with an orange dupatta sits at far left beside a teddy bear. Piles of colourful glass bangles fill the cloth, and a golden kalasha-like vessel stands among them. The scene suggests a Devi alankaram bangle offering at a temple hall.

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