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A ritual abhishekam-style puja under a white tent with hanging colourful lanterns and fans overhead. A bare-chested priest in a yellow dhoti and cloth shoulder-wrap, with white markings on his arms, pours white grain or rice from a brass plate over a decorated arrangement of pots and kalasha vessels draped in flowers. Behind him a man in white dhoti stands beside a brass oil lamp stand, and a man in white shawl and dhoti stands at the right holding a garland-like cloth. Several other devotees sit on mats in the background, and a plain bearded man in a white shawl with a green-edged dhoti stands at the far right. Smoke or incense haze hangs in the air. A framed clock-like item and marigold petals sit on the red-draped table in front.

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