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Outdoor temple ceremony under a canopy of red, orange, yellow and green draped fabric. Dozens of devotees in white clothes sit on red mats in rows, many with hands pressed in anjali. On a raised red-and-white striped platform, a figure in orange robes sits before a puja arrangement of fruit and flowers, with a standing devotee in white nearby. Behind, a deity murti stands in an alcove decorated with garlands, and a sign reads Sri Aandeshwara Temple. The orange-robed figure's identity cannot be confirmed from appearance, so this is recorded as unsure.

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