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A padapuja ritual in a red-curtained hall. A seated figure in an orange saree with long dark hair and a gold-beaded necklace sits on an ornate wooden throne with gilded lion-head armrests, her bare feet resting on a patterned cloth. Several devotees kneel before her: a bald man in a white shirt with a red scarf, a woman in a green saree with a red blouse, a woman in a blue and white saree with a red scarf, and a woman with curly light hair in a white top and orange saree. They are washing her feet from metal bowls. Behind them, rows of red theatre seats. A bowl of red flowers sits on the left. A white-clad devotee is partly visible at the bottom edge.

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