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A photograph of a temple shrine decorated with garlands in yellow, green, red, white and purple. On the right, a metal deity murti stands on a golden lion-like vahana with a blue cloth draped over its base, framed by a gold arch. A man in an orange dhoti and bare-chested, with long dark hair and a gold armlet, raises his right hand holding a leaf or flower toward the deity. Another man at left in an orange cloth holds a woven basket of leaves, and a brass vessel sits in the foreground. Silver drapery and small red and yellow pennants hang behind the shrine, with a decorated canopy at upper left.

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