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Temple ritual photograph in a dim stone hall lined with many black stone deity murtis garlanded with yellow marigold and red-white flower garlands. In the centre, a man in an orange-brown robe and a black turban sits on a low wooden seat before a small oil lamp and brass vessels, with an ornate silver stand and silver kalasha pots in the foreground on a striped woven mat. A man kneels at right in orange clothing with a bare upper body and sacred ash marks on his arm, adjusting or assisting the ritual. Behind them is a silver peetha and a garlanded silver-tinted deity figure. Ritual setting, possibly abhishekam or puja.

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