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Outdoor ritual under a corrugated roof beside a bright pink-faced Ganesha murti and a lion-faced deity murti. A young man in a rust-red and gold-bordered cloth, bare-chested with white sandal markings on his arms, holds a small dish and applies a yellow paste to the forehead of a young girl. She wears a green silk blouse and skirt, heavy yellow marigold garlands with red flower strands, gold jewellery and a gold crown. Steel bowls, a small brass lamp and offering items sit on a table in the foreground. This appears to be a puja or abhishekam-style blessing.

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