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Interior shrine photograph showing three garlanded deity murti seated on a low platform, each draped in marigold and red-and-pink flower garlands. The central figure wears a gold-and-red embroidered cover with a bright silver face; the left and right figures are dressed in yellow and orange cloth with flower garlands. Brass oil lamps stand on a red-and-black mat in front, and a banana plant leans behind. At right, a seated man in white clothes plays a drum. A sign on the wall reads about more than 20,000 people in 247 countries having darshan of Anandeshwara-Anandeshwari.

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