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A nighttime photograph of a crowd moving through a temple entrance flanked by heavy studded wooden doors. In the foreground on the left, a smiling person with a red-and-white forehead mark wears a pink flower garland and an orange-brown garment. Beside and behind them, a bald priest in white dhoti and shawl wears a gold pendant necklace, and another man in saffron robes with rudraksha beads stands at the right edge. Uniformed police officers stand among the crowd, and a glowing lamp-lit sanctum is visible deeper inside the doorway. a person's presence is not established by appearance.

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