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A covered outdoor shrine during Navaratri-season worship, with a large clay murti of Goddess Durga with multiple arms, crowned and draped in garlands of orange marigolds, beside a small Ganesha figure with an elephant head. A standing priest in an orange-brown robe with a yellow border raises a flame-lit lamp toward the deity. Before the altar, a seated attendant in a white garment and pink turban tends to brass lamps and offerings on a low table. Several monks in orange robes sit on a mat at left, and a white-clad person stands in the background among red-walled buildings and palm trees. A red cloth covers the altar base and a small oil lamp burns at the front.

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