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A temple ritual scene in a stone-walled sanctum. A man with long dark hair and a maroon turban, wearing a rudraksha-style neck garland and bare-chested with a maroon cloth wrapped at the waist, drapes a thick multicoloured flower garland over a golden deity murti. The golden murti wears a crown, a red-and-gold silk dhoti and gold armlets. Behind it hang large garlands of yellow, red and green flowers. A brass oil lamp with a lit flame sits in the foreground, and a second person in orange-brown cloth is partly visible at the left edge. Possible abhishekam or alankaram puja. The man's appearance is uncertain and no caption names him.

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