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Night photograph of a rudrabhishekam at an open-air tiered stone platform lined with many shivalingams on black yoni-pitha bases. A young girl in white with a vertical tilak and a gold-coloured pot-shaped vessel sits at the left, near a lingam. Behind her, rows of young devotees in orange-saffron robes stand and sit on the steps, several holding gold ceremonial vessels and pouring offerings over the lingams. Scattered flower petals lie on the stones. A white metal railing runs along the right side. The pictured people are in a single gathering, the foreground figures clearly visible.

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