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A padapuja ritual in a small room with light patterned walls. A figure with long dark hair, wearing an orange-saffron robe and a white flower garland, sits raised on a white-draped seat with hands pressed together in namaskar. Seated before them on a blue and yellow cloth, a woman in white reaches toward offerings of fruit, sweets, flowers and a brass kalasha-style vessel. Around them devotees sit in white clothes, several with yellow shawls, a girl in a pale green dress with a long braid, a boy in red, and a man in glasses with hands folded. Plates of bananas, oranges, apples and mangoes lie on the cloth. A portrait-style figure in orange also sits to the right. The scene reads as padapuja worship with fruit offerings.

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