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A crowded nighttime photograph of devotees gathered in a temple-street setting, many standing and some seated on the floor. Seated women in white saris with yellow borders tend brass oil lamps (deepas) with lit wicks on a patterned mat in the foreground. Standing men wear white dhotis and shirts, one in a light blue shirt, another in an orange shirt, and a figure in a red and orange head wrap near the centre. Shop fronts and lights glow in the background. No figure is clearly identifiable as a person from appearance, so no candidate is marked.

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