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A photograph of a temple ritual inside a pillared hall. In the foreground a shirtless priest with a short grey beard and a long red coral bead mala stands in a white dhoti with lavender-striped border, holding a wicker basket of flowers and offerings and gazing upward. Beside him a second man in a blue and red striped cloth and white dhoti holds a brass five-flame aarti lamp on a tray toward the right, while smoke drifts through the air. Two more men stand behind, one wearing glasses and a red tilak, and the setting shows grey stone pillars and window grilles.

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