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A night-time photograph of a ritual on a raised metal platform beside a large dark stone lingam wrapped in a garland of white, yellow and red flowers. A bearded man in a maroon-red turban with a small ornament, wearing a maroon-red shawl and a long gold-and-orange bead necklace, stands with eyes closed and face upturned, apparently in meditation or prayer. Two other men in orange-saffron cloth are partly visible on the stairs and at the left edge, one holding a woven basket, with brass vessels on the platform below. The background is dark night sky. Appearance cues are not fully distinctive enough to confirm the identity of the central figure.

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