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Inside a gilded temple hall, a golden pyramidal peetha or altar base dominates the centre, draped with white and red flower garlands and yellow marigold strings, with red and white petals scattered on its tiers and a golden kalasha-like finial on top. Two priests sit on a mat in the foreground performing puja: the seated priest on the left wears a saffron-orange dhoti and shawl with his back to the camera, and a younger priest on the right, bare-chested with a sacred thread, tends brass vessels, a plate of flowers and a lit oil lamp. Brass oil lamps, bowls, plates of pink flowers and fruit surround them, and a golden deity murti stands at the right edge of the room.

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