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A photograph inside a temple shrine during a puja. A standing man in a dark maroon-brown dhoti-style garment with a gold border and gold necklace raises one arm high, holding an object above him, and smiles; he wears a tall black turban and has a rudraksha-style mala visible at his chest. Beside him, a shaved-headed priest in an orange-red garment bends low over offerings. Flower garlands of yellow, orange, green, and purple hang around the gilded murti of deities seated at the back, with a golden arch overhead. A bowed attendant in orange clothing and another kneeling figure in dark clothes tend the brass vessels and small offerings at the base of the shrine, where a small banana-leaf arrangement sits to the left.

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