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A ceremony inside a bright room with cream walls and orange-and-yellow marigold festoons. A large arch of white flower garlands frames a deity murti or decorated image draped in cloth. In the foreground an elderly bearded man with long white hair, wearing a yellow dhoti and rudraksha mala, bends forward before the arch while a man in white ritual clothes stands near him. Behind them a man in a red-and-cream robe holds a small brass vessel. A cameraman in a white shirt films with a large video camera on his shoulder, and several men in white kurtas, saffron shawls and orange scarves stand with folded hands along the right side. a person is not visibly identifiable with confidence; the seated-bent figure in yellow shows only a shaved-headed priest's appearance. Several people are visible, forming a small group of devotees and attendants at a puja or abhishekam.

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