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A devotee in an orange robe stands with her back to the camera before a row of black stone sage statues seated in meditation posture on dark pedestals, each with a white-striped forehead, tall ornamental headdress and red-and-gold wrapped cloth, many wearing marigold garlands. A brass table draped in orange cloth holds oil lamps with flames, a brass kalasha, brass bowls, incense smoke rising, and scattered oranges. The wall behind is tan concrete block with a small security camera.

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