A large painted Ganesha murti with a golden crown, orange-and-red headdress, yellow flower garlands with red roses, and a decorated silver necklace stands in the dark at night. A young boy in white ritual cloth, seen from behind with a shaved-back hair knot, holds a brass oil lamp aarti toward the deity's trunk while the flame glows. The scene reads as an evening puja before a Ganesha idol. - Nithyanandapedia

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A large painted Ganesha murti with a golden crown, orange-and-red headdress, yellow flower garlands with red roses, and a decorated silver necklace stands in the dark at night. A young boy in white ritual cloth, seen from behind with a shaved-back hair knot, holds a brass oil lamp aarti toward the deity's trunk while the flame glows. The scene reads as an evening puja before a Ganesha idol.

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