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Two women kneel on a colourful striped cloth preparing a yellow-green paste. The woman on the left wears an orange blouse and orange sari with a bindi, silver earrings, pink bangles and white powder dusting her hands, and kneads a large mound of yellow paste in a dark bowl. The woman behind her, in a dark sari with gold border, scoops more paste with her hand. Nearby stand stone mortars and a carved stone slab with circular grooves, and scattered paste lies on the cloth. No swami is visible.

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