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Despite its smallness, the Navacakti Nayaki temple too, has been improved and enlarged. The top picture was taken in January 2003 and shows (from left to right): the Vishnu-Narayana altar with a large icon of Lakshmi (see close-up on plate 21), the Ganesha altar, the Navacakti Nayaki altar, and part of the Murukan altar. The picture below shows new bronzes that were installed on 21st of March 2003: a bronze of Vishnu-Narayana along with Shri(-Lakshmi) and Bhu(-Devi), and a bronze of the goddess Durga in the corner niche of the Ganesha altar (see also close-up on plate 19). The deities form a semicircle and end with a Shiva altar which was also renewed (see plate 20). On the table in front of the main shrine there is a metal lion watching the goddess, a bali-pitha, and three small goddess bronzes (see the close-up on plate 18) which indicate again the Great Goddess theology followed by the temple. Top photo: 5.1.2003; bottom photo: 15.4.2003.