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Night photograph of a crowd of devotees gathered outdoors before a temple gateway with a painted gopuram-style shrine above. A central lit deity murti, with a peacock figure at the top, stands in an ornate arch above the entrance. Many people in the foreground, mostly women in colourful saris and men in white shirts and dhotis, face the shrine with hands folded or raised in devotion. Bright lamps and a string of lights hang above, and the air is filled with blurred round light spots. A yellow-orange cloth hangs from a pillar at left. The timestamp in the lower right reads 5 19:16.

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