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A small pink-walled room with a wooden shrine cabinet on the left containing framed deity pictures and brass vessels. A man with a shaved head, wearing an orange-brown shawl over a saffron dhoti and multiple rudraksha malas, holds a lit oil lamp toward the shrine. Beside him, a man in ochre robes and rudraksha mala holds a brass bowl of flower petals. The man in the foreground wears a long dense garland of red roses with yellow marigolds, gold armlets and bracelets, and a dark swept-back hair style, and rings a brass handbell with his right hand. A floor covering with dark floral print lies beneath, and a pink-and-white floral garland hangs on the wall. Puja in progress at a shrine.

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