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A photograph of a Hindu puja at a shrine. On the left, a man with grey hair and glasses, wearing a rudraksha mala and a bracelet, holds a lit camphor or flame plate toward a deity murti of Saraswati. The murti is seated in a gold-framed halo, wearing a white flower garland and a tall crown, holding a veena, and dressed in a pink and gold sari. A brass lamp burns on the left, with marigold and white flowers and a small brass object in the foreground. Red and gold fabric hangs behind the shrine, and the carved gold woodwork frames the scene. This is an aarti being performed before Saraswati.

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