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A temple ritual inside a bare room with cream-tiled walls and a metal cabinet behind. A figure with long, voluminous dark hair and a saffron-orange robe, seen from behind, stands at right raising a hand with white ash smeared on the arm, facing a tall, richly decorated deity murti. The murti is draped in red, yellow, green and white garlands and fabric, with a decorated headdress at the top. Beside the central figure, a man in saffron robes stands with a brass vessel. At left, a person in saffron robes with a rudraksha-style bead necklace stands with palms pressed together, and a seated man in a white dhoti with a bare chest prays at the far left. A figure in red behind the murti adjusts the decorations. The scene appears to be a puja or abhishekam at the murti. Several people are visible, roughly five.

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