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A large white painted bull statue with ornate multicoloured saddle cloth and decorations stands on a blue pedestal in a temple courtyard. Around its base, painted deity murtis and figures with hands folded and raised stand in a blue-railed enclosure, including a devotee with a shaved head at the lower right edge. Two guardian figures with painted faces and ornaments stand on the left under a corrugated shelter, and a striped pillar frames the left side. Overcast sky.

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