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Indoor photograph of a Maheshwara puja during Brahmotsav Day-6. A seated man in white clothes with hands joined in namaste sits on the left beside a woman in white with an orange shawl who bends over banana leaves holding offerings. A woman in a red top wearing a white flower garland and gold headband sits in the foreground near a banana leaf with flowers and food. Standing devotees in white dhotis and orange shawls line the floor behind them, and a plastic water bottle rests on a red-and-blue striped mat. Yellow floor lines and white curtains frame the hall.

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