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Several devotees sit in a row in front of a red brick stepped platform lined with black stone shivalingas, many with small lamps or offerings on top. Most participants are bare-chested, wearing white dhotis and some orange cloth. A bald white-haired elderly man with white beard and a vertical tilak on his forehead, bare-chested with a white dhoti, holds a small flame in his hands. Beside him a bearded man with long dark hair holds a flame, and a woman with blonde hair in a white garment also holds a small lamp. Several other people sit in the background. A man on the left wears a rudraksha mala, sacred ash marks on his forehead and arms, and holds a lamp. Small oil lamps flicker in the foreground. The scene appears to be a ritual lamp offering or puja at the shivalingas. Several people are visible, counting those partially in frame.

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