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Inside a temple hall, a priest with a shaved, white-ash-marked head and bare chest, wearing a pink towel and rudraksha mala, offers a silver tray of fruit, flowers and coconuts. A seated man in orange robes with long swept-back dark hair and a gold necklace receives it at a table covered in white cloth, with a red visitor book labelled "VISITORS BOOK" in front. Behind them, a man in orange with a grey beard, white-clad devotees and a man in a lime-green shirt stand near painted wooden statues of devotees with palms pressed together. The appearance-based candidate matches several cues, so the depiction is a person seated in person.

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