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Indoor temple-style worship before a dark maroon curtain with tall decorative banners showing painted folk motifs. Centre, two black stone or metal deity murtis stand on a raised tiered pedestal draped in gold cloth and garlanded with pink and white flowers; the upper figure wears a tall conical crown and jewelled necklaces. A standing man in a white dhoti-style garment, seen from behind, raises a multi-wick oil lamp with a visible flame toward the deity. Seated attendants in white and a seated man near the left hold brass vessels and offerings on a white-draped table. A smaller deity murti sits at the far left on a purple-draped platform. Audience members, mostly seen from behind, sit on the floor in the foreground, including a woman in a blue sari at the right edge. Brass puja items and fruit lie before the altar, with a kumkum-marked tray in front.

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