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A dense crowd of devotees sits on the floor of a stone temple hall with carved pink-grey granite pillars, one carved with floral and geometric motifs in the foreground. A woman at left in an orange-red sari with a white garland and folded palms sits near the front, and many women in white and orange-red saris with kumkum bindis sit and stand with palms joined in prayer. Men in white dhotis and shirts and several in orange-red stand in the background among orange and green festoons hung from the pillars. A woman at lower centre in a yellow-green sari speaks while gesturing, and a green cloth bundle lies at left. The scene suggests a satsang or temple gathering, with no visible deity or a person figure clearly identified.

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