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A staged cultural performance on a red stage before a carved wooden backdrop. A performer dressed as a multi-armed deity wears a gold crown with a flame-like headpiece, a green and gold costume, long white and yellow flower garlands, and holds a long staff across red-painted arms. Seated on a gold-framed ornate throne at left is a figure in orange robes, an orange head wrap and a gold necklace. In front of the throne a man in white dhoti and shawl with a rudraksha mala kneels with hands folded, beside a woman in teal and a young girl in blue who sit on the stage. A carved relief of a deity and attendants fills the right side. Deity murti; the costumed figure is a performer, not a statue. Several people are visible.

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