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A shirtless elderly priest in an orange-saffron dhoti bends forward at a gilded shrine niche to offer worship to a black stone deity murti wrapped in a white cloth with a pink flower crown and a rudraksha-style bead mala. A gold-embellished arch frames the idol on a yellow cloth. The priest wears a beaded gold headband and gold armlets and has white sacred ash marks on his arms and chest. Two attendants in white dhotis flank him, one on the left and one on the right, handling the scene. A brass oil lamp with a flame sits at the lower right of the shrine. The scene reads as puja or abhishekam in a temple setting. The priest is a ritual officiant; no physical person is visibly identified as a person.

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