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A temple puja in a gold-decorated shrine hall with polished marble floor. Five people sit on the floor before a shrine holding three garlanded deity murtis with gold arches behind them. A bare-chested priest in an orange dhoti with white sacred markings on his body leads the worship, holding a lamp toward the deities. Around him, a man in an orange cloth and three women in saris, one in pink-and-yellow, one in green and red, one in orange, hold lit oil lamps (aarti). Brass plates of flowers, bananas, fruit, coconut and kumkum sit on low wooden tables in front of them. The scene shows a puja in progress.

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