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Outdoor evening puja at a temple shelter with a corrugated metal roof and palm trees behind. A man with long hair, a bare upper body, a white forehead mark and a yellow and red marigold garland stands with palms joined in prayer. Beside him, a man in orange cloth holds a lit oil lamp and a brass plate. On the right, a large decorated deity murti with a golden hooded crown, silver ornaments and a green and gold silk cloth is garlanded with yellow and red flowers and white jasmine strands, set on a golden platform with brass vessels. Two people are visible, a devotee and a priest, performing aarti.

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