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Wide photograph of an open stone-paved courtyard at a South Indian temple. A tall, white-plastered gopuram (temple tower) with many sculpted tiers rises at the centre-right, with smaller shrine structures to the left, including a domed mandapa with a painted roof and a dark stone shrine. Two figures walk across the paving near the pillared corridor, one in a pink top and another in a light blue garment, and a small group of people in white and orange clothing is visible further back by the gopuram entrance. A woman in red sits near the left shrine. Grey granite walls frame the right side.

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