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Evening outdoor scene at a temple courtyard with a stone pillar and stone lamp-stand draped in white and pink flower garlands. A central seated figure in orange robes sits on a woven mat before a brass oil lamp and a small brass vessel, with a microphone stand in front. Around him, rows of devotees sit in white and orange clothing, many with orange shawls, some with hands folded in prayer. In the foreground, several women with braided hair and white dresses face the scene, and a man in a white shirt with an orange shawl on the right holds his palms together. Bamboo and palm-thatch canopy poles overhead, with a lit lamp and dark temple gopuram behind.

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