A night photograph of a white stone temple shrine at the top of a wide, pale staircase flanked by low pink-and-white railings and dark trees. A single person in white ritual clothes bends low on the steps, tending a small flame or oil lamp glowing in the foreground. Lamps flicker at the shrine doorway, where a deity murti is faintly visible. - Nithyanandapedia

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A night photograph of a white stone temple shrine at the top of a wide, pale staircase flanked by low pink-and-white railings and dark trees. A single person in white ritual clothes bends low on the steps, tending a small flame or oil lamp glowing in the foreground. Lamps flicker at the shrine doorway, where a deity murti is faintly visible.

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