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Indoor photo of a devotional scene in a home room with yellow walls, a window with metal grille, and a wall clock. A glass-fronted case draped with white and yellow flower garlands holds floral offerings and a white cloth. A bare-chested man in rust-red wrap with long dark swept-back hair and a long beaded rudraksha mala stands centre-right, head bowed toward the case. Several people with palms pressed together in namaskar stand around it: a man in orange wrap at left, a woman in red blouse, a woman in pink patterned top, and a bare-chested man in orange wrap at right holding a yellow cloth bag. Another person sits near the lower centre. a person cues are present in the bare-chested man with long swept-back hair and mala, centre-right; his role appears to be leading the reverence at the case.

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