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A photograph inside a temple hall with bare concrete block walls and a red carpeted floor. A seated figure in a dark head-wrap with a red garland and a yellow marigold garland sits on a throne-like seat before an ornate, multicoloured mandapam-style backdrop trimmed with yellow flowers. Several people in white and cream dhotis or saris with gold borders attend him: a bare-chested man in a dhoti kneels and bows toward the seated figure while another man in white steadies him by the shoulder, and a woman in a cream sari with a gold border and rudraksha beads stands at the centre, holding a flower and offering. Other attendants in white and a woman in a blue sari stand at the right, with striped and patterned cloth banners hanging in the upper corners. The scene suggests a darshan or blessing ceremony, with the seated figure receiving devotees.

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