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A photograph inside a temple space with a whitewashed block wall, showing a large, dark, richly decorated deity murti behind a crowd of devotees. The murti wears a red and gold turban-style crown, gold ornaments and a garland of red and white flowers. To the right, a second deity figure is adorned with layered gold crowns, a jewelled necklace and white and yellow flower garlands. A man in white kurta-pyjama stands in the centre, and a woman in a green patterned sari stands beside him. On the left, a videographer with a camera on a tripod films the scene. Rows of small white offerings sit on dark shelves in the foreground, and red and orange fruit arrangements appear at the right edge. Visible people: about four.

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