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A photograph of four men walking through a temple corridor with ornately painted pillars in blue, red and yellow. Two saffron-robed figures in the foreground wear red-orange cloth, rudraksha or gold necklaces, white forehead markings and red headbands; the figure at centre-right wears a rudraksha mala and a gold pendant with a shawl draped over the shoulder. Behind them an orange-clad attendant carries a white cloth bag. On the right a man in a blue checked shirt and white dhoti walks beside them, and white-clad devotees stand in the background near a lit shrine niche.

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