A photograph of a man with long, swept-back dark hair and a bare upper body, draped in orange cloth, holding a silver oil lamp with lit flames toward a small black stone deity murti in a recessed wooden niche in a white temple wall. He wears a gold beaded necklace and a gold bracelet, and a small yellow light bulb hangs above the niche. - Nithyanandapedia

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A photograph of a man with long, swept-back dark hair and a bare upper body, draped in orange cloth, holding a silver oil lamp with lit flames toward a small black stone deity murti in a recessed wooden niche in a white temple wall. He wears a gold beaded necklace and a gold bracelet, and a small yellow light bulb hangs above the niche.

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