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Outdoors in a stone-paved temple courtyard beside a tall pink temple wall, a man with long swept-back dark hair and a white tilak wears saffron-orange robes, a rudraksha-style gold bead necklace and a saffron shawl. He holds a small silver bowl while a younger shaved-headed attendant in orange robes and beaded garland bends forward to offer or take it. Behind them a crowd of white-clad devotees, men in white dhotis and women in orange saris, stands with hands folded. A black stone pedestal with carved lion-like figure sits at right beneath a thatched shade, and a leopard-print mat lies on the stone floor.

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