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Indoor puja setting with a low white table holding brass thalis of food, sliced fruit, aluminium-foil trays and a small brass kalasha. Three bronze deity statues stand on pedestals against a white wall. A man in a white kurta with a gold chain sits at left preparing offerings, while a woman in a red blouse and navy-and-gold silk sari kneels on a patterned rug at right. Two children in the foreground watch, and seated devotees in cream clothes are behind the table. Brass bowls, a small figurine and a drum are visible on the floor.

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