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A temple ritual inside a shrine with grey stone walls and red-and-white striped pillars. Five men in orange ochre robes sit or stand around a golden rectangular stand holding a green cloth. A seated priest on the left in orange robes with a sacred thread tends the ritual, with brass lamps, a brass kalasha-type vessel, plates of marigold and red flower petals, green leaves and sandalwood-coloured offerings on the floor. A bearded man in an orange shawl with a rudraksha mala kneels in the centre, and a man in a white dhoti stands with his hands folded at his chest. A standing man in an orange dhoti and shawl on the right has his hands clasped, and a seated disciple in orange with folded hands sits on the right. Five people are visible in total, performing a puja or abhishekam to a deity murti behind the stone platform.

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