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Photograph of rows of black stone Shivalingams, each draped in white cloth with orange and green borders and wrapped with rudraksha malas, arranged in dense grid across a flat concrete ground under daylight. A foreground lingam is largest and has a green leaf resting on its base. Small signs with place names sit near some lingams, including one reading Nasteri Bangalore. No people are visible. a person is not visibly present.

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