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Outdoor evening ritual on tiered red steps lined with many black stone Shivalingams on pedestals. Several men sit bare-chested in white dhotis with white ash markings on their bodies and foreheads, some holding small vessels and hands raised in offering. A white-haired elderly man in a white dhoti sits on the right with hands pressed together in prayer. An elderly woman in a white sari with a gold border sits at the far right, and other women in saffron and white saris sit further back. A red flag stands at the left edge, with string lights and trees in the background, consistent with a Rudrabhishekam abhishekam ritual. No swami is visibly identifiable among those present.

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