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Evening photograph of a Navaratri puja at an outdoor temple pavilion with large colourful goddess murtis and a lion statue. On the right, a man with a long dark hair and bare upper body sits on an ornate silver throne, hands folded in namaste, wearing a white garland and a maroon cloth. A priest in an orange-brown shawl stands before him near an oil lamp. Women in green, pink, red and yellow saris sit on the floor with flower garlands and kumkum, and young men in saffron cloth and orange turbans sit in the foreground beside offering bowls and flowers. Flower petals cover the floor.

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