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A woman in an orange-red silk sari with gold borders stands at a doorway, holding a lit oil lamp toward a shrine decorated with red and white flower garlands and a golden arch of lights. A man in a white dhoti with a gold border, seen from behind at the right edge, holds a lamp or vessel toward the shrine. On the stone altar are brass and silver vessels, small oil lamps and flower offerings. The walls are pale stone and the floor is wet with scattered petals. This appears to be an aarti or puja at a shrine.

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