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Indoor house-visit pada puja in a modest living room. A man with long dark hair, wearing a rust-orange dhoti and shawl, multiple rudraksha malas and a garland of white jasmine and yellow-red flowers, sits on an orange cushioned sofa holding a silver ceremonial staff. Beside him a young boy in an orange dhoti and rudraksha mala sits on the floor. Before them a family kneels on a red cloth around a small flame and a brass plate of flowers and fruit, a man in a white shirt with a sacred thread and a woman in a green-bordered white sari participating. Behind, several women in saris and salwar kameez stand or sit with hands folded in namaskar. Shelves with framed photos and figurines line the wall.

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