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Night photograph of an arati ritual before a pair of gold-toned deity murtis seated on a stone shrine stage. The seated male murti wears a tall gold crown, rudraksha-style beaded necklaces, white dhoti with red-gold border, and holds a trident and drum-like object; the female murti wears a green sari with red-gold border, jewelled necklaces and a long plaited braid. Before them a devotee in a grey-blue kurta stands with his back to the camera, holding a lit flame aloft in one hand, with a golden kalasha-like object and marigold garland at the stage center. White-draped curtains frame the shrine, and a few audience members are faintly visible at the bottom edge.

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