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A devotee in an orange robe stands at the right of a dim temple hall, offering incense or a lamp toward a row of black stone murtis seated in meditation and dressed in orange cloths with yellow flower garlands. Behind them, white deity murtis with crowns and bows stand beside a golden arch and draped cream curtain. Oil lamps burn on the floor and a table to the right holds fruit, brass plates and offerings. The standing figure is a devotee performing puja; no visible person is identifiable as a person.

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