A craftsman sits barefoot on a floor in a workshop, working on a curved copper or bronze arc held over a wooden block. He wears a white short-sleeved shirt, white dhoti with a reddish-orange border, and a white sacred ash line with a red dot on his forehead. Tools, rods, scraps of paper and a blue drum lie around him, and a large carved relief panel rests on the floor at right. - Nithyanandapedia

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A craftsman sits barefoot on a floor in a workshop, working on a curved copper or bronze arc held over a wooden block. He wears a white short-sleeved shirt, white dhoti with a reddish-orange border, and a white sacred ash line with a red dot on his forehead. Tools, rods, scraps of paper and a blue drum lie around him, and a large carved relief panel rests on the floor at right.

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