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Photograph of a devotional gathering in a temple hall. Devotees sit cross-legged on red and patterned mats facing a wall of stacked colourful cloth bags in red, orange, yellow, green and blue. On the left stands a tall painted murti of a goddess in red and gold dress with a golden crown. At right are ornate shrines with garlanded deity murtis and flower decorations. In the foreground a bald man in an orange-red robe sits with brass plates before him. Women wear red, yellow, pink, green and maroon saris and salwar kameez; a young child in white sits among them. Brass vessels and plates rest on the mats.

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