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A three-panel collage of photographs from a Kailasa Toronto abhishekam for a person. Left panel: two women in saris prepare offerings, one in a maroon blouse and green sari, the other in white, beside a green gold-brocade covered table with pineapples, bananas, apples, limes, a melon and a coconut, and a row of steel vessels. Centre panel: women in cream and yellow saris arrange bananas, melon, apples and steel bowls on a silver tray near a black stone yoni-shaped abhishekam base and a small brass deity murti. Right panel: a woman in a cream sari and gold bangles holds a lit aarti lamp over a tall brass oil lamp beside a brass thali with flowers, kumkum and vibhuti, and a gold-draped altar. Collage text reads Kailasa Toronto Abishekam for swamiji. No a person candidate is visible in any panel.

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