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A photograph of a devotional shrine set against an orange wall, with no people visible. At the centre sits a seated figure in yellow robes with a grey beard and a dark cloth beneath, a statue of a sage or saint rather than a living person. Above, a framed image shows Krishna playing a flute beside Radha in blue and red. Two white cows with red-and-gold blankets, a peacock, a Krishna figure in yellow, a seated figure playing a veena, and gold deity figurines surround the centre. Large arrangements of yellow and purple flowers flank the shrine, and a green cloth covers a stand at the lower right.

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