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A photograph of a wet, bare-chested man with long dreadlocked hair and a beard, his palms pressed together in namaste and eyes closed. He wears layered rudraksha malas and a rudraksha bracelet. A man in a white shirt and white dhoti pours water from an orange plastic vessel over his head. Beside them stands a younger man with dreadlocked hair, a tilak on his forehead, a pendant, layered rudraksha malas and an orange-red cloth around his waist, looking toward the camera. An orange-red cloth canopy hangs overhead and white carved temple stonework is behind them.

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Photo 111868092018-04-29A man with long wet dark hair and a beard stands bare-chested with his palms pressed together in prayer while water pours over his head from a yellow-rope-tied vessel above. He wears dense layers of rudraksha mala beads across his chest and upper arm. Behind him a man in a white shirt with a gold chain watches, and a bare-armed attendant holds a small orange cup at right, wearing red garments and rudraksha beads. The setting appears to be a temple abhishekam-style water ritual.2018-04-29April 29 20182018-04-29A bare-chested man with long matted dreadlocks stands with hands joined in namaste while water is poured over his head from a metal vessel held by an assistant in the upper right. He wears multiple rows of rudraksha mala beads across his chest and shoulder, and a rudraksha bracelet on his wrist. A yellow cord is visible near the pouring vessel. Behind him, other people in white garments are present. The man has distinctive long dreadlocks, rudraksha malas and bare-chested presentation, consistent with the probable identity given on the page, so this is a person in person being bathed in water.2018-04-29A photograph of a bare-chested man with long dreadlocked black hair and rudraksha malas on his neck and wrist, his palms pressed together in prayer as water pours over his head from a metal vessel suspended above him by a yellow rope. Another person in white stands close beside him, and a second figure with a red rudraksha mala is visible at right. Bright sunlight and a stone structure with orange cloth form the background.2018-04-29A bare-chested man with long dreadlocked hair, wet and glistening, stands with palms pressed together in namaskar beside a weathered stone wall of a temple precinct. He wears multiple strands of large rudraksha malas around his neck and wrist. Behind him, several people press close, one holding a phone aloft and another pouring water from a white plastic container. The man's shoulders and hair are wet. Some people wear rust-coloured shirts and white dhotis. Yellow and pink painted walls and a blue sky appear in the background.2018-04-29A bare-chested man with long dreadlocked hair and a dense rudraksha mala around his neck stands outdoors in bright sunlight with palms pressed together in prayer, head bowed toward a dark stone wall. Water is poured over him from a metal vessel held above by a hand on the left, and water droplets cover his skin and hair. Behind him, devotees with rudraksha bracelets crowd close, including a man in a salmon shirt and a woman in a yellow garment, one holding a white plastic jug. Weathered pink and yellow temple walls rise in the background. The scene suggests an abhishekam-style water offering at a temple wall, with several people visible.2018-04-29April 29 20182018-04-29Photograph of a devotee being bathed with water poured from a metal bucket held by a man at right, outdoors on a red tiled floor beside green shrubs and a beige stone wall. The central figure has long wet dark hair and a heavy rudraksha mala, kneeling with hands pressed together as water runs over him. Around him stand people in orange and red robes, a man in white kurta with rudraksha beads, a smiling man with a red tilak and rudraksha mala, and a man in white dhoti with gold border. The water is poured with a yellow cord tied to the bucket.2018-04-29April 29 20182018-04-29A photograph of devotees at an outdoor water-pouring ritual beside a tiled channel, under green trees with a grey wall behind. In the foreground a bare-chested man with long dark dreadlocks, a rudraksha mala and a red-brown cloth is bowing with his hands at his face while water runs over him. Behind him, men in orange cloths and rudraksha malas stand with bare chests, and a man in a yellow shawl holds a ceremonial string of beads. A man in white dhoti bends over the channel, and a man in a white shirt stands at the right. No figure is clearly identifiable as a person by the listed cues, so no candidate is marked.2018-04-29April 29 20182018-04-29