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A photograph of a ceremonial food offering laid out on a table for a naivedyam. Many small portions of cooked rice and vegetable dishes, cashews, almonds and sliced fruit are arranged on green banana leaves and metal plates. Bananas, a red apple and a long green gourd sit on a large silver tray at upper right. Silver containers with brass bowls and a small silver dish of pulses or grains sit at left. Yellow and pink flowers are scattered around, and a tiger-striped yellow cloth hangs behind the arrangement. No people are visible.

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