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Six dancers in traditional Bharatanatyam-style costumes perform on a red mat inside a temple hall with gold-coloured pillars and hanging colourful tassel decorations. Dancers wear orange, red, pink, green and yellow silk costumes with gold borders, jewellery, flower garlands and hands raised in anjali mudra with arms overhead. Brass oil lamps and a dark stone object stand in the foreground, with seated devotees watching in the background. Scattered flower petals lie on the floor.

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