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A priest sits on the floor at the right edge, bare-chested with white sacred markings on his body and white dhoti, reading from a laptop or book on his lap while facing a shrine. The shrine holds a deity murti with a tall golden crown, trident, and a garland of purple, white and red flowers, draped with a purple and gold silk cloth and a flower-and-lemon garland. Before it stand a copper kalasha vase with pink and white roses and purple carnations, and brass puja plates. The gilded arch frames the murti against a golden wall with a red and orange hanging at upper right. The setting suggests a Kalabhairava puja in a temple shrine.

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