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A priest seated at a blue table dresses small brass murti figures in the foreground. He has bare upper body with white sacred markings on his arm and wears a white dhoti; he holds a red ribbon in his hands. A red-and-yellow sari-clad figure and a red-clad figure stand on the table, with a silver plate in the lower right holding black hair, jewellery, a trishul-like ornament and garlands. Behind them, a yellow-walled shrine with a framed arch of marigold garlands shows a seated figure in orange turban and saffron robes with a pearl mala, flanked by brass deity figures, a kalasha-like lamp, and two framed portraits of a saffron-robed man with a red-orange cloth on the upper wall. A gold throne-like chair stands at right.

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