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A temple interior photo showing a long-haired man with dreadlocks and a bare chest, wearing a rust-brown wrap, bending forward with hands joined near a painted wooden statue of a bearded sage with a topknot, rudraksha beads and a multicoloured dhoti. A second bare-chested man in a white dhoti with a sacred thread and rudraksha mala stands at right holding a silver plate with a lit oil lamp and offerings. A third, partly visible man stands at far left. The scene resembles a puja at a shrine pillar. The man at left has no clearly distinctive a person cues such as a crown or saffron ornate clothing, so no identification is made and the field is set to unsure.

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