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A photograph of a home shrine visit during a padapuja at a devotee's house. A woman in a rust-orange sari with a rudraksha mala and gold armlets and bangles holds a red fruit toward a seated man with white hair and a white garland who bends forward to receive it. Behind them, an orange-robed young sannyasi holds a yellow tray of red fruit, another orange-robed attendant stands near a glass cabinet of brass and gold deity figurines, and a framed portrait with pink flowers and red bougainvillea hangs on a wall draped in gold-bordered red silk. A photographer in the upper left takes pictures.

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