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Devotees crowd a temple queue in front of a shrine with oil lamps and incense smoke rising. A woman in the foreground wears a pink floral hair ornament, a red-and-gold sari and a red-beaded necklace. Nearby, a bare-chested man in a dhoti stands at the shrine's side, and a pujari in white dhoti with a drum-like instrument is visible at the right. Older men and women in saris stand in the line. A metal offering tray and a numbered marker reading 24 sit in the foreground beside a blue railing. The scene suggests darshan at a South Indian temple sanctum.

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The central figure is a person by appearance, given the turban, bare-chested adornments and gold jewellery.2018-05-08A photograph of a temple scene in Kerala with a central figure wearing a black turban decorated with pink flower petals, a large red and white flower-bead garland, gold armbands, gold necklaces and a dark maroon cloth, with eyes closed and hands folded over the chest. Flanking him are bearded men: one on the left in a dark turban and another in a white and gold shawl with a red-beaded mala and gold chain, bare-chested. Devotees in pink and white occupy the foreground, and red lettering is visible on a wall at left. a person is the central figure, his appearance matching his presentation as an honoured guest with turban, floral garland and gold ornaments.2018-05-08