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A seated row of devotees performs a puja at a temple-style hall, with brass plates and oil lamps glowing along a low floor cloth in front of them. In the foreground a young boy in a purple shirt with a rudraksha mala looks down, hands raised toward the offerings. Adults in white dhotis and shirts sit beside him, some with hands joined or extended over brass vessels. On the left, a bare-backed priest in a white dhoti sits facing the row. Red and orange cloths hang in the blurred background, and small lamp flames dot the scene. Several more people are visible in the background.

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