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Several young women sit in a row on a raised stone platform before a shrine decorated with white and red arched backdrops and garlands. Behind them stand large murtis, including a multi-armed goddess figure at centre and a figure with an elephant head on the left. The women wear colourful silk saris and lehengas in blue, red, green, and striped tones, with long white and yellow flower garlands, bangles, and pink lotus flowers in their hands. Oil lamps glow in front of the central shrine, and a bright flame burns near the centre. Marigold petals are scattered on the platform. Five or six women are visible in the foreground.

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