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A large grey-blue Shivalinga is being bathed with flowing liquid, with white streaks running down its surface, set on a black circular yoni-pitha base. The linga is garlanded with a continuous arch of red, yellow, white, purple and green flowers and has three silver bands with a small silver disc at its centre. On a metal platform at left, two priests in orange-brown dhoti and wrap stand with white forehead markings, one holding a white cloth or vessel toward the linga. Behind, a tiered wall of terracotta pots with green plants and red-orange garlands strung across the building face. At upper right, a trumpeter in orange clothes raises a long brass horn. Several other people in orange robes stand in the background.

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