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Outdoor ritual on red sandstone steps with rows of black Shivalingam stones and brass pots, many with orange-red offerings, at what appears to be a riverside ghat. Devotees sit in rows with bare chests and white dhotis or saffron cloth. A woman in white with teal shawl and red-rimmed glasses, seated at left, handles an offering; a bald man with a rudraksha mala sits in white at centre, bending over an offering. Red flags line the railing behind, with spectators seated in the upper background. Smoke rises in the morning light.

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