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A photograph inside a shrine during Devi Kamakshi puja. A shirtless man in a white dhoti with a gold-bordered cloth over his shoulder, wearing glasses, stands barefoot holding a lit oil lamp aarti plate toward the altar. Behind him a black-faced deity murti of Devi, adorned with white and yellow marigold garlands, sits on a silver-and-gold lion-like vahana beneath a gilded arched prabhavali with red drapery. Brass and gold vessels, bowls of offerings, kumkum, flower petals and a silver tray sit on an orange cloth in front. Two more deity murtis with garlands stand in the background at the left.