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A domestic ritual scene in a living room where a woman in a peach-orange salwar kameez bends forward to place offerings on a brown cloth spread across the floor. Trays and bowls hold oranges, apples, bananas, sliced fruit, flower petals, sweets and yellow drinks, with a small bowl of flowers in pink and white. Behind her, a woman in orange and red sits on the right beside a seated man in white and orange, and several other seated devotees in saffron, white and teal clothing watch. A child is held up at the top left, and a bald man in white sits at the far right. This appears to be a puja offering gathering.

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