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Photograph of a temple ritual in an interior with yellow-and-brown wooden doors and colourful painted pillars. A man in a rust-orange turban and orange robe, wearing red and white flower garlands, gold necklaces and a bangle, smiles while holding a flat clay lamp, and a second man in a black and gold embroidered crown, orange robe, rudraksha mala and gold bangle lights the flame with a taper. A further lamp burns at the bottom edge and a partly visible person stands at the left edge. Brass lamps are visible behind them. The turbaned figure may be a person, identified by the orange turban, ornate attire and garlands, with the role of lamp-holder in puja.

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