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A photograph at a coastal temple tank with a pink-painted stone-and-metal railing rising from dark water. In the right foreground a man with long dreadlocked hair and a bare chest, wearing a thick rust-brown rudraksha-style mala across his shoulder, stands with palms pressed together in prayer, face turned toward the water. Behind him a woman in a pink top and blue cloth stands waist-deep in the tank, and another person is partly submerged to the left. On the white-tiled wall above, a row of people in green and white saris and garments watch from the ledge, with houses, palm trees and a small solar-powered streetlight behind. The scene suggests a sacred bathing ritual at the temple waterfront. a person cues are present (long dreadlocked hair, rudraksha mala) but the figure is not clearly identifiable, so the identity is uncertain.

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