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A photograph at an outdoor shrine under a large spreading banyan tree. A black stone murti of a deity seated on a pedestal is decorated with an orange turban, a white garland of flowers and a long white bead garland, with a silver arched frame and a blue cloth backdrop behind it. In the foreground, a woman in an orange and cream sari with a red-and-white flower garland stands with her hands folded, beside a young boy in orange and a man in white. Several monks in orange and saffron robes stand and sit in the background near a fenced area. A small black shivalinga with a yellow flower garland sits in front of the murti, and red cloth covers the base. No candidate for a person is clearly identifiable by appearance.

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