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A photograph of a padapuja ritual in a dark-walled shrine room. A seated figure in a rust-orange dhoti and wrap, wearing a white flower garland and a rudraksha-style necklace, sits on an ornate gold throne carved with lion heads and rings a hanging brass bell with his right hand, his bare feet resting on a tray. Around the throne hang brass oil lamps. Before him, devotees in white and orange kneel and sit beside silver thalis holding flowers, fruit, kumkum and lamps. A woman in orange with a rudraksha mala sits at left, a man in white with a red shawl sits at centre, and a man with white vibhuti marks sits behind them. Only the seated central figure is an appearance-based candidate, and the page does not state a person is present, so the identity is uncertain.

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