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A priest in a white-streaked ritual dress, with bare chest and a draped saffron-and-brown shawl, performs a multi-wick oil lamp aarti before a gold deity murti of Vinayagar (Ganesha) and a standing Chandikeshwara figure, both garlanded with red, yellow and white flower garlands and green leaves. Golden ornate arches and a brass oil lamp surround the shrine. The lamps flicker in the foreground. The caption identifies the scene as the Vinayagar and Chandikeshwara Deeparadhana during the Nithyanandotsavam Purvanga Utsavam, 2021, Day 0.

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