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Women in white ritual clothes pour water from golden conical vessels over a row of black and grey Shivalingams set in round stone basins, with red flowers floating in the water. Several participants wear white and sheer white shawls with white tilak marks on their foreheads and rudraksha beads around their necks, seated in a line on red steps. This appears to be an abhishekam, a ritual bathing of the lingams. No one clearly matches the described a person in this image, so no identity is claimed.

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