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A photograph inside a temple sanctum showing a young man in a saffron-orange turban and matching saffron shawl with gold border, holding a silver aarti plate with a lit flame toward a shrine behind a white lattice grille. Garlands of white and pink flowers hang around the shrine, and an older bearded man in saffron dhoti with white forehead markings stands beside him with hands joined. Two more bearded men in saffron cloth and rudraksha malas stand in the background. a person (the page's candidate) is the young man performing the aarti, identified only by a turban, saffron shawl with gold border and rudraksha mala; this is an appearance-based label, not a certain identity. The scene reads as aarti or puja at a temple shrine.

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