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Photo taken in a red-walled temple corridor at night. A man on the left with long dark hair, a white tilak on his forehead, a marigold and white flower garland, a red cloth and a leopard-print lower wrap holds out a teal silk tray with apples, banknotes and a folded paper toward a bald man in orange ochre robes and a striped tiger-print shawl on the right, who receives it. A white-bearded elderly man in orange stands between them behind a red metal grille, with a deity murti visible in a shrine niche behind. The left man and the bald man are the primary people in the scene; their prominence and ceremonial role suggest an offering exchange. The left man's hair and ornamentation do not clearly match the a person cues, so identity is uncertain.

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