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A woman in a white sari with a red and orange embroidered blouse sits cross-legged on the floor at left, hands raised in a mudra, wearing a blue face mask and a bangle. In front of her a long white-covered table holds dozens of small bowls of food, including sweets, rice dishes, flatbreads, bananas, mangoes and fruit, arranged for a puja offering. At the centre of the table stands a pink-draped kalasha or murti with a red hibiscus, and beside it a small figure with a red flower. Behind them two dark deity murtis sit on a raised platform before red drapes: a seated elephant-headed Ganesha with a green and blue turban and orange dhoti, and a golden-adorned goddess in a pink and green sari with a veil. Brass lamps and a tray of puja items lie on the floor in the foreground.

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