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Photograph inside a stone temple corridor at night, with a painted frieze of deities and garlands overhead and carved stone pillars beside. A dense crowd of devotees presses around a central figure with long dark hair and a white-and-gold shawl, who wears a rudraksha mala and gold ornaments; a person candidate by appearance, with long hair, a shawl and ceremonial adornments. Nearby, a bald man bare-chested with a red and saffron wrap and beaded necklace, a woman in an orange sari with gold necklaces, a bare-chested man with rudraksha beads, and a long-haired woman in a maroon garment with white flowers in her hair. A uniformed man in khaki stands at the lower right, and a white-shirted man in the background. Small colourful tassels hang from a wooden beam overhead.