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A photograph inside a bare, whitewashed hall with a grey concrete floor. A man in a rust-red turban and matching red-orange dhoti with a gold-coloured waistband, wearing a white-and-red garland, holds a lit oil lamp in one hand and gestures with the other while standing before a seated statue. The statue is a white figure in a red-orange robe and turban, draped in white and red flower garlands and a yellow bead garland, seated on a black lotus-shaped pedestal. Beside it stands an ornate carved wooden throne draped in red and decorated with flower garlands, with a cushion on the floor in front. Offerings of fruit, flowers, a small brass vessel and a red cloth lie on green and red cloths in the foreground. Two women in red saris and a few onlookers stand at the left edge. A red cloth hangs on the wall and a pedestal fan stands nearby. This appears to be a puja performed before the statue and throne.

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