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Indoor house-visit puja in a pink-walled room with framed religious pictures and a flower garland at upper left. A man in a red-orange dhoti and shawl with a white-beaded garland and gold bangles sits on the left, raising a silver lamp stand with a lit flame. In the centre, a monk in saffron robes with a shaved head sits on a patterned mat before fruit, bananas and a steel plate. A grey-haired man in white with a sandalwood tilak and rudraksha mala holds a small lit lamp toward the plate. Women in saris and a woman in blue sit nearby, and a standing man in white photographs the scene. Several family members watch from the doorway, including a woman in green holding a small child. A plate of flowers and garlands sits at the bottom edge.

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