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A photograph of a ceremonial abhishekam being performed on a tall black stone deity murti of Venkateshwara, a standing four-armed form with a tall crown. A long-haired man in an orange t-shirt and orange dhoti stands on a silver step ladder, wiping the murti's upper body with a white cloth. Beside him, a bald, bare-chested priest in a white dhoti and a sacred thread, with a rudraksha mala at his neck, stands with a hand raised toward the statue. A gold-carved temple doorframe stands at the right within a white tent enclosure. A small banana or fruit offering rests on the ladder's top step.