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Outdoors under a partly cloudy blue sky, a bare-chested male priest in a cream dhoti with a red-and-gold patterned cloth wrapped at his waist pours liquid from a small metal vessel over a black stone deity murti. The central multi-armed murti stands on a black pedestal, holding a staff and other objects, with a rudraksha-like ornamentation on its chest. Beside it, two smaller black stone figures in saffron-orange shawls stand on their own bases, and a black carved arch with a canopy frames the left side. Green trees and hills appear behind, with a blue building at the back. The priest is performing abhishekam, the ritual bathing of the deity. A red-and-white striped base is visible at the bottom edge.

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