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Priests perform a temple ritual in a shrine room. In the foreground a bare-chested priest in white dhoti and yellow-orange shawl holds a golden ladle over a brass vessel, with a bundle of herbs in his other hand. Beside him a priest with rudraksha mala and red sacred thread chants, while another in the left foreground blows a conch-like horn. A silver lamp stand with red and yellow garlands stands at right, and a deity murti draped in flowers is behind. Offerings of fruit and flowers lie on a wooden tray. No a person candidate is clearly identifiable by appearance.

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