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A photograph of a temple ritual in which a man with long dark hair wrapped in a leopard-print headcloth and adorned with a green leaf crown sits on an ornate silver throne with a red cushion. He wears a saffron-orange shawl, heavy gold necklaces, gold armlets and bangles, and a tilak on his forehead, and places his hands on the heads of two seated devotees in white dhotis with folded hands. A young attendant with rudraksha malas and a sacred thread stands at left beside a smoking incense or homa stream, and saffron-robed attendants stand in the background near a carved stone deity murti and a lit lamp. The man on the throne is.

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