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Night temple scene framed by two ornate golden lion-headed gateway pillars. A figure seen from behind, with long dark hair falling down the back, wears a brown cloth wrap with a gold border and stands barefoot on a woven mat, facing a lit shrine. Inside the shrine stand a deity murti decorated with a red and gold cloth and a garland, and to the right an elaborately decorated golden palanquin-like structure with a garlanded figure. Small stone bull figures sit on the shrine roof. Greenery frames the lower edges. The figure's identity cannot be confirmed from appearance; the page refers to a Thirujnanasambandar Puja, but no legible sign in the image names that ritual.

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