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A photograph of a shrine under a banyan tree at a temple campus. A priest in white dhoti and shirt with a yellow shawl and rudraksha mala waves a white chamara fan over a black stone deity murti of Dakshinamurthy, draped in orange cloth and garlanded with red and yellow flowers. A woman in a green and maroon sari stands behind the murti with her head bowed in prayer. In front, a silver plate holds offerings and an oil lamp burns on a stone stand, and a brass bell lies on the red-painted base. A silver arch frames the shrine. The label on the shrine reads Dakshinamurthy Sannidhi shrine.

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