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A photograph of a ritual at an interior shrine with a tiled wall and a wooden balcony railing behind. A person on the right, with white tripundra forehead marks, wears a dark red-brown garment, layered gold necklaces and rudraksha-style beads, and a thick garland of red and yellow flowers; with one raised arm they scatter pink and white flower petals over the murtis. Beside them stands a bronze-coloured statue of a bald figure wearing red-orange cloth and a beaded necklace, and a golden deity murti in white and green cloth with a crown. A small brass bowl of petals sits on a steel platter in the foreground. Other devotees and an attendant in white stand in the background, and an orange flower garland hangs from the railing. This is a petal-offering moment during a puja at a shrine.

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