A blurred photograph of a priest seen from behind, bare-backed and wearing a blue cloth around his waist, leaning toward a black stone deity murti. The murti is adorned with a long white flower garland with red and yellow blossoms, a red-orange tilak mark on its forehead, and a lit oil lamp glowing at the lower right. A dark wall forms the background. - Nithyanandapedia

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A blurred photograph of a priest seen from behind, bare-backed and wearing a blue cloth around his waist, leaning toward a black stone deity murti. The murti is adorned with a long white flower garland with red and yellow blossoms, a red-orange tilak mark on its forehead, and a lit oil lamp glowing at the lower right. A dark wall forms the background.

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