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A photograph inside a ritual room at an ashram. In the foreground a person with long dark hair in a bun, wearing a maroon and gold striped garment and a long garland of yellow and pink flowers, stands before three metal deity murtis on a wall backdrop of gold tiles. The central murti is a standing figure with a tall crown, white dhoti, trident and rudraksha-style beads; a seated bronze figure in orange cloth stands beside it, and a female murti in green and red sari with a crown is on the right. To the left a red velvet and gold throne is empty, and a shaved-headed attendant in orange cloth with a white tilak stands beside it. Behind them a group of devotees in white and orange garments stand with hands folded in anjali. The person at the front appears to be performing a puja to the murtis.

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