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A photograph inside a dim stone-walled shrine. A man in a red and yellow garment with a bare upper body and a sacred thread-like neck beaded necklace holds a brass bell over a brass oil lamp with a flame, reaching toward a black stone deity murti decorated with yellow marigolds and red flowers. Beside him, a bare-shouldered devotee with a red and white flower garland, hands pressed together in anjali, stands with eyes lowered in prayer. Gold bangles adorn the wrists. The scene suggests a puja or aarti at the shrine.

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