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Indoor temple puja at a shrine altar draped in blue and pink cloth, with a deity murti adorned with a silver-embossed garland. Three priests with white sacred ash markings on their bodies sit and stand on a teal cloth. One standing priest in white dhoti and gold-bordered shawl arranges lamps on a pink cloth; a seated priest on the right wears a rudraksha mala and bare chest; a seated priest on the left wears a white dhoti and white mask. Offerings on silver and brass trays include fruit, nuts, sweets, rose petals and a brass kalasha, with orange and red flowers on the altar. Rows of small lamps are lit on the cloth. This is a puja offering scene; no person here shows distinctive a person cues.

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