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Indoor ritual photo in a room with orange leather-upholstered gilded chairs and a patterned maroon curtain behind. An elderly woman with grey-streaked hair wears an orange silk wrap and a dark rudraksha mala, kneeling and handling food or offerings with her hands over a large silver bowl of white mixture with red and colourful garnish. A younger man in a maroon-brown dhoti and cloth, with gold bead mala necklaces and a white-painted forehead with a tilak, sits beside her also working with the bowl and a small brass vessel. Another man in an orange garment sits partly behind them. Striped mats and fruit appear at the bottom edge.

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