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Four women sit cross-legged on a floor in a ritual puja, each holding small handbells and a small brass lamp or vessel. The woman in front right wears a white garment with a green-bordered shawl, a rudraksha garland with dark rudraksha mala beads, a vertical tilak on her forehead, and a small bell in her right hand while raising a lamp-like object. Beside her, a woman in a white and orange-gold shawl with a rudraksha garland holds a bell. Two other women in white attire sit to the left, one with a sash and another with a patterned white dress, all seated with eyes closed in devotion. Behind them, a few older people in white and orange sit in the background of a hall with red draping. No a person candidate is visible in the image.

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