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Night-time photograph outdoors under a tin roof at a shrine. A shaven-headed young man in orange-red dhoti and upper cloth, with a rudraksha mala, bows forward and offers a bundle wrapped in white cloth to a seated man in orange-red robes with gold borders and a rudraksha mala. The seated man, with long swept-back hair, sits in an orange chair with hands extended to receive the bundle. Behind them a golden deity murti (elephant-headed form) is garlanded with yellow, orange and purple flowers. Yellow petals and red flower buds lie on a peach cloth on the ground.

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