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A photograph of a temple puja at night beneath a draped canopy of orange, red, green and yellow fabric, with banana leaves at the edges. On the left stands a colourful deity murti with multiple figures, flanked by brass-and-cane pots holding flowers. A standing figure on the right in orange robes and a pink-trimmed shawl, wearing a beaded necklace and bracelets, raises a brass oil lamp (aarti) in one hand and rings a bell in the other. Seated lower right, a woman in an orange sari with hands joined in prayer sits among other devotees, and a brass lamp stands nearby. A yellow-clad devotee sits in the foreground, and a hanging yellow cloth frames the left edge.

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