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A stage performance on a red floor in front of an ornate gold-and-cream throne backdrop and a large carved relief of a multi-armed deity murti holding a drum. Three drummers in red shirts and teal or green dhoti-style trousers play hand drums with sticks and bare feet, wearing ankle bells and head bands. Behind them, a seated figure in a pale orange-and-red robe with a beaded mala sits on an ornate throne with a tiger-skin draping. Several women and a girl in colourful saris and salwar sit on the floor to the left, along with a man in white dhoti with a mala.

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