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A temple ritual photograph under a colourful striped canopy with green foliage behind. Five people stand close together around a shallow metal tray holding a folded blue cloth. On the left, a bare-chested priest in an orange-yellow cloth has white paste on his arm and gestures toward the tray. Beside him a young man in a striped shirt watches. A woman in a yellow-green and maroon sari with gold jewellery and a marigold garland stands centre-left, touching the tray. A man in a blue dhoti with a red-and-gold border and a red shawl, bare-chested and with a red-and-white tilak on his forehead, holds the tray edge. On the right a young man in a white dhoti with a red shawl and striped border also holds the cloth.

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