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Indoor temple room with yellow walls where several devotees sit on the floor for a puja. Three men in bare upper bodies and white dhoti sit in front, one wearing a white cloth over the shoulder; a woman in a grey-green silk saree sits beside them and another woman in a red and cream outfit sits on a chair behind. Before them is a green cloth covered with fruit platters and rows of brass and gold-toned cups filled for naivedyam offering, with a copper vessel of red and yellow roses at right. In the background is a decorated shrine with a deity murti under an ornate arch, and a row of colourful deity murtis on a shelf at right. Six people are visible.

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