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A temple puja scene at KAILASA San Jose: a priest in white dhoti and shawl with gold-rimmed glasses sits on the left, reading from an open book and holding a small object, with gold bangles on his wrist. Before him a large brass vessel with flowers and petals stands on a blue cloth. A shirtless young man in white dhoti with a sacred thread kneels on the right, arranging small brass lamps on a pink-and-gold cloth. Behind them a deity murti is draped in a blue and gold garment with an ornate gold-and-green embroidered collar and garlands, beside a brass oil lamp and a small golden figure, with bookshelves in the background.

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