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Three children seated on silver-toned chairs before large painted deity figures and gilded decorations. The child in the centre wears a purple and gold garment with a white and red flower garland and rudraksha beads, and has white ash markings on the forehead and arms. The child on the left wears a teal cloth with a white and red garland, and the child on the right wears a green cloth with a garland. Their hair is styled up with long locks. In the foreground, a person in an orange head wrap and a person with a red-brown cloth face away from the camera. Flower petals lie on the ground.

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