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A photograph of a crowded hall during a Maheshwara Puja style offering, with a long white cloth laid along the floor holding leaf plates, small cups and water bottles. Many devotees in saffron and orange robes, some with gold borders, rudraksha malas and bangles, stand and bend along the cloth. A man in maroon and gold dhoti-style cloth and bare-chested devotees fill the frame, and a woman in yellow kneels at the left. Several devotees are foreground, with orange shawls and rudraksha beads, and a young man in the lower right wears a white necklace. No single identifiable a person figure is clearly visible, so the a person field is set to unsure.

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