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A photograph of a temple puja inside a hall with gold-painted shrine structures and a crowd of seated devotees. A standing priest in a white dhoti with a blue-bordered cloth and a pink-and-saffron head cloth holds a lit oil lamp aloft toward a raised platform. A young assistant in white dhoti kneels at the front-right, beside a brass vessel and a shallow fire or lamp tray. The altar is strewn with yellow and white flower garlands, fruits such as bananas and apples, and marigold arrangements. Hanging decorative lamps and streamers decorate the ceiling, and smoke or haze drifts through the air. Behind the priest, deity murtis stand in gilded niches.

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