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A woman stands centre-frame in a white sari with an orange-saffron shawl draped over her shoulders, holding a brass multi-wick aarti lamp with flames in her right hand and a handbell in her left. A rudraksha-style bead necklace hangs at her neck. Seated children and adults in white and green clothing watch in a hall; in front of her a spread of bananas, apples, oranges, sliced fruit and red-garnished offerings lies on a mat. A man in white sits at the upper left and an open doorway with a window is behind. No printed captions are visible, and the page's a person flag is not supported by any distinctive visible cue, so no identification is made.

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