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A photo of a large indoor hall with red-tinted ceiling lights where a group of women in orange and maroon saris stand in rows holding small leaf plates of food. In the foreground, a woman with grey-streaked hair in a low bun, wearing a rudraksha mala and an orange sari with a maroon border, looks down while cupping food offerings in her hands. Nearby women in orange saris hold similar leaf plates, and white-clad plates of offerings sit on a table at the lower right. The setting resembles a Maheshwara Puja offering of pinda food to the ancestors.

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