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Night photograph of a large clay murti of Goddess Mahishasura Mardini, many-armed Durga, with a white ornate crown and white embroidered sari with red border, slaying a lion-headed demon beneath her. She holds weapons in her raised hands and wears yellow marigold garlands. A bare-chested priest in an orange-and-maroon dhoti stands at left beside the murti, and a seated man in dark clothing with flower garlands sits at right near the base. A small dark object and marigold offerings lie on the platform in the foreground, against a black background with foliage at upper left.

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