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A photograph of a home-visit padapuja inside a small room with peach walls, a flat-screen TV on the wall and a glass-topped table with plants. A central seated figure in rust-red and saffron robes, wearing a long white flower garland, a rudraksha mala and gold armlets, smiles with eyes closed as a devotee in a white dhoti and shawl offers a flaming aarti lamp and a flower-decorated plate. Behind him a standing attendant in orange robes holds a silver trident, and another attendant in orange with a rudraksha mala holds a camera. Seated on the left, a woman in a pink sari with folded hands watches. Around the central figure are several seated attendants in orange and white. Foreground hands are pressed together in greeting. a person: the seated central figure wears a long white garland, rudraksha mala and gold armlets with saffron-and-rust robes, and is the one receiving the puja.

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