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A man in a blue plaid shirt and khaki trousers leans over a low table lined with rows of lit oil lamps, holding a brass plate as he tends them. Behind him a golden statue of a seated figure wearing a maroon turban, a layered garland of beads, and a red-and-gold dhoti-style wrap sits on a black-tiled pedestal, holding a trident-like staff and a raised hand. Golden lion-head pillars flank the statue, and draped fabrics in green, blue and maroon hang behind it. A framed image sits on a small red-draped stand with pink flowers, a green plant, and a red-lit lamp. A folded orange and gold cloth with a pearl mala lies at the bottom edge on a tiger-striped mat. The setting is an indoor shrine room with cinder-block walls and a tiled floor.

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