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Evening temple ritual before a richly decorated deity murti draped in garlands of yellow, red, white and purple flowers, with a gold-tinted halo behind it. A seated priest in orange-saffron robes, a rudraksha-style bead necklace and a tall patterned headdress performs puja on a raised altar covered with a red-and-gold cloth. Oil lamps and torches burn, and brass bowls hold rice, flowers, fruit and kumkum. A young woman in white with an orange shawl holds a basket of fruit toward the priest, and several people stand behind them, including a woman in white with folded hands. Incense smoke rises in the warm-lit hall.

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