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A photograph inside a temple hall with yellow-brown block walls and gold-framed red niches holding black stone deity murtis adorned with garlands and orange cloth. In the foreground a woman in a blue sari and dark top, wearing glasses and a patterned bag, reaches over a gold-edged altar table scattered with pink and white flower petals, handling a pink-draped object. Beside her a man in white shirt stands near the altar. Further back, devotees in orange, pink and multicoloured saris and shirts move between the shrines. At right, a woman with grey hair in a bun, a face mask and a red and gold sari watches. Brass lamps and garlands are visible at left.

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