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Night photograph of a small roadside shrine with pale grey walls and an arched central niche containing a large dark stone sculpture of a deity with a raised hand, partly covered by a white cloth draped over a figure, the cloth reading as a shawl or wrap. Two smaller dark stone figures stand in flanking arched niches decorated with green, pink and gold trim. A white metal railing fronts the central niche, and a small dark animal sits on the lower steps. A standing figure in white clothing appears at the central niche, with a rudraksha-style wrap; the appearance is not sufficiently distinctive to confirm the a person candidate. Lamplit dark street setting.

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