A photograph of a shrine with a white Nandi bull and a deity murti decorated with multicolour garlands, set behind a stone platform with brass lamps and offerings. A person in an orange robe with bare upper back bends forward in devotion at the platform edge, standing on a patterned mat. Red-and-white striped curtains hang at the side of the open pillared pavilion, with palm trees beyond. - Nithyanandapedia

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A photograph of a shrine with a white Nandi bull and a deity murti decorated with multicolour garlands, set behind a stone platform with brass lamps and offerings. A person in an orange robe with bare upper back bends forward in devotion at the platform edge, standing on a patterned mat. Red-and-white striped curtains hang at the side of the open pillared pavilion, with palm trees beyond.

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