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A photograph of several women seated on the floor in a courtyard, dressed in white saris and dhotis-style white clothing with yellow and orange shawls. They sit before orange mats and brass plates holding fruit, sweets and small brass vessels, with oil lamps and spoons arranged in front of them, consistent with a padha pooja offering. One woman in the foreground wears a yellow shawl and serves from a brass plate. A green bag and a teal plate sit in the background beside red walls and a potted plant. No a person candidate is visible in the frame.

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