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A priest performs puja before a tiered display of many small black stone murti figures, each dressed in orange cloth with green and gold borders and wearing garlands of red and white flowers. The priest, shaved-headed with a white beard and bare upper body, wears a white dhoti with a green-gold border and holds a brass bell in one hand and an incense stick or flame in the other. On the orange-draped table in front are brass plates with bananas, fruit, sweets, a brass oil lamp, small brass vessels and flower petals. Framed photographs hang on the wall to the right beside a gold-trimmed door.

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