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A festival puja in a tented temple hall with large painted and gilded deity murtis of a goddess holding weapons, flanked by two gilded goddess figures with halo-like arches and an elephant-headed deity at left. A lion mount sits near the central goddess. In the foreground, a young priest in an orange dhoti and shawl leans over a brass vessel at a sacrificial fire pit decorated with marigolds. Women in saris with white and red garlands sit around the altar, and a bare-chested man with a flower garland and striped cloth sits at right on an ornate silver seat. Colourful floor cloths and brass lamps surround the scene.

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