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A temple ritual in a plain room with yellow-tan cinder block walls. A bare-chested priest with a sandalwood forehead mark and white body markings wears a white dhoti with gold border and an orange-red shawl over one shoulder, a dark beaded mala around his neck. He holds a silver tray of halved lemons and lemon pieces with one hand, and a brass vessel is being held by another person's hand reaching in from the left. In front of him stands a copper-coloured statue of a bald, bare-chested figure with a hand raised in a gesture of blessing, and before it a black cylindrical abhishekam stone is being bathed. The scene appears to be a ritual abhishekam with lemons and water.

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