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Two women sit cross-legged on the floor before an orange wall, performing a puja. Both wear white saris with gold-bordered pallu and yellow shawls draped over their shoulders. The woman on the left holds a small brass vessel and a spoon, and a thin wisp of smoke rises beside her. The woman on the right has a white tilak on her forehead and joins her palms in prayer. Before them on the floor are brass thalis with yellow flowers, small brass bowls and cups, a brass lamp, a conch-shaped vessel and a green mat. No a person candidate is visible in the scene.

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