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Night-time outdoor ritual photograph at a temple-style shrine. A tiered stepped platform holds many small deity murtis, each garlanded with marigold and multicolored flower strands, with a larger shrine canopy at top draped in garlands and flowers, housing a central deity image. In front, a man with a shaved-looking dark head in a deep red-orange robe stands at a low ceremonial platform with brass vessels and lamps, apparently leading the worship. A decorated silver-and-pink palanquin or ratha-style model stands at left. Seated devotees in white, orange and saffron clothing fill the foreground, some with long hair and some with shaved heads, facing the shrine. Oil lamps and brass vessels are arranged on the platform, and a dark-clothed attendant stands at right. The scene suggests an abhishekam or puja at a shrine.

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