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A photograph taken in a covered shed at dusk of a Gaumatha puja. A brown cow with white markings on its face and horns, wearing a green and yellow cloth draped over its back, stands near a small shrine with an idol and lit oil lamps. A woman in an orange saree with a bare head and forehead markings stands at right, holding a brass bell and a lamp. Green fodder is scattered on the concrete floor in the foreground, and a plain red wall and kolam-decorated pillar frame the scene.

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