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A female dancer in a green and orange silk costume with a gold waist belt performs a classical Indian dance in an ashram hall, her palms joined overhead in anjali mudra. She wears jhumka earrings, a maang tikka, bangles, a beaded necklace and a red bindi. Behind her stand gold-coloured deity murti and a golden kalasha-style canopy, with framed devotional paintings on the walls. At the left edge, a seated audience member in a red shawl and a man in red and white are partly visible. Another dancer's arm extends from the right edge.

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