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A temple priest, bare-chested and wearing a yellow dhoti with a white cloth tied at the waist, stands at the left edge of a stone shrine niche tending a black stone deity murti. The murti is dressed in a red silk sari with gold border, a gold-bordered orange shawl, and white and pink-yellow flower garlands. A round red-and-orange lamp frame with a glowing flame sits behind the head, and a brass oil lamp hangs at the right. A brass disc backdrop and weathered stone walls surround the shrine.

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