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Night photograph at an outdoor shrine. A dark stone deity murti. A figure in saffron-orange robes with a draped shawl stands at left, one hand touching the murti; a man in a pale blue shirt and cream dhoti stands at the frame's right side, and a person in white dhoti and shirt with an ochre head wrap stands at right in the foreground. Other people are partly visible at left edge. A black lingam stands on a base in front, and the platform is built of rounded stones edged with red. Printed copyright text runs vertically along the right edge.

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