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Indoor temple shrine with several painted deity murti and statues along the left wall, including a standing figure in white and gold with a crown, and seated dark-stone figures adorned with yellow flower garlands. A woman in an orange sari stands at a table draped in orange cloth, arranging fruit, bananas, brass plates and oil lamps as an offering. Beside her, a bare-chested man in a white dhoti and sacred thread attends the puja. Ornate gold arches frame further deities, and at right a figure is decorated with red and white garlands. A few seated devotees are visible at the lower right edge.

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