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A photograph of a large banyan tree with many aerial roots and thick branches supported by ropes, at a temple site. Several people in orange-red and saffron robes stand and walk around a low fenced area beneath the tree, one figure in a white garment bends forward. In the right foreground a black stone deity murti or shivalinga-style shrine is adorned with a red cloth and a garland of yellow and orange flowers. A small black altar and a black stone lotus-shaped or hand-shaped offering stone sit on a mat with red and yellow petals in front. Sandy ground and paved walkway surround the tree.

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