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Outdoor ritual scene at a red-and-white striped stepped platform. A man in a white dhoti and shirt on the left holds a silver tray of offerings toward a seated figure. The seated man wears a leopard-print shawl over a yellow-gold garment, smiling and raising one hand in greeting; brass lamps and yellow flowers sit on the steps beside him. Two devotees in white kneel in the foreground, one a woman in a gold-bordered white sari and one a man in a white shirt and dhoti, bowing near the platform. Behind them a crowd of people in white garments and some wearing white lanyard beads stands watching, with a colourful temple gopuram visible at upper right. The seated man is an appearance-based a person candidate with a leopard shawl and a saffron-toned garment, but his identity is uncertain from appearance alone.

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