Dark night photo of an outdoor ritual at a stone-and-rock shrine framed by an ornate silver arch. A figure in orange robes sits before a dark stone deity murti draped with a garland, with offerings and oil lamps on the ground in front. Around them, people in white clothing stand and kneel, and a camera on a tripod is set up at the right. Several seated devotees in the foreground face the shrine. - Nithyanandapedia

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Dark night photo of an outdoor ritual at a stone-and-rock shrine framed by an ornate silver arch. A figure in orange robes sits before a dark stone deity murti draped with a garland, with offerings and oil lamps on the ground in front. Around them, people in white clothing stand and kneel, and a camera on a tripod is set up at the right. Several seated devotees in the foreground face the shrine.

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