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A young man with short dark hair and glasses, bare-armed and shirtless, leans over a black stone pedestal to pour white milk from a brass pot onto a large dark deity murti. The murti wears a yellow dhoti with a red border and stands on a stepped black base; milk runs down its feet and onto a red-and-white cloth at the base. A blue step ladder stands behind him and a red velvet backdrop and carved temple-wall printed panel fill the background. The scene shows abhishekam, the ritual bathing of a murti.

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