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A large black stone Shivalingam rises from a tiered black yoni-peetha base at the centre of a tank, draped with marigold and yellow-and-magenta flower garlands. Water pours from the lingam and spout onto the base, cascading into the pool. In the foreground a crowd of about twenty people bathes in the water, some with hands raised, several children, women in saffron and teal saris. Behind, people in white clothes stand on red stone steps lining the tank, with a few in saffron and yellow. This is a photograph of a holy dip at a sacred water tank with a lingam abhishekam.

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