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Overhead view of a square earthen mound in reddish-brown soil with a radiating pattern of thin bent metal wire rods converging on a dark central hole. Sacks with faded printed lettering and a crumpled colourful paper wrapper lie at the edges. This is an early construction-stage photograph of temple groundwork, with no people visible and no ceremony shown.

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