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Indoor photograph in a narrow, plain whitewashed temple corridor during a devotional ritual. In the centre, a bearded man with long dark hair wears orange-saffron robes and a purple-bordered cloth, with a garland of red flowers at his neck; he holds his hands together in namaskar. A younger man in a green-and-gold patterned dhoti-style cloth, bare-chested with a sacred thread and gold armlets, stands beside him with a Vaishnava tilak on his forehead and offers his palms outward. Other devotees in white shirts and bare-shouldered men crowd in from the foreground, and an older man in glasses and a white shirt watches from behind. Hands reach toward a small object being passed.

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