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Photograph inside a temple shrine room with a large black Shiva lingam draped in a maroon velvet cloth edged with gold and studded with jewels, a silver-gold necklace and yellow and red flowers placed on it, and small brass bells hanging at its base. Three men in saffron-orange robes sit on the floor in prayer, the foremost with hands pressed together in anjali and white tripundra marks on his forehead. A woman in red sits to the right beside a golden deity murti and a tall gold-framed display of ornate decorations and garlands. A kalasha stands in the foreground with a pink flower. Puja setting.

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