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A group of about fifteen devotees sits in a temple room with cream walls and framed photographs above. In the foreground, a woman in a gold-brown sari with a gold forehead ornament and a mask hanging at her chin presses her palms together in anjali, and a young man in a grey hooded sweatshirt sits cross-legged on a blue patterned mat. Several people in white dhoti and shawl clothing sit in the background, some wearing orange garments and others in maroon. A bearded man in white with a rudraksha mala sits near the centre, and a woman in orange gestures in namaskar. Stacked garlands of orange and white flowers stand at the left, beside a silver ritual canopy structure. A brass plate with offerings sits at the lower left.

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