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A photograph of a temple abhishekam at night beneath a stone portico. A man with long, loose dark hair wears an orange-red dhoti with a bare upper body and bends forward, pouring water from a silver vessel over a black Shivalingam on a pedestal. Behind him stand two large metallic deity murtis, one with a crown and red headband and the other with a silver crown, both garlanded with yellow and red flowers and wearing white and red garments. A small figure of a seated deity sits at the front of the pedestal. A second man in a peach-coloured dhoti with gold necklaces stands at the left edge. Water flows across the stone floor and brass vessels sit at the lower left. a person candidate with long hair, orange cloth and bare chest pouring water in the abhishekam; appearance-based identity is probable but the face is not clearly visible.

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