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A temple ritual inside a shrine with a dark red curtain and a gold-framed arch. A bare-chested priest with grey hair and white sacred markings on his arms and forehead, wearing a yellow-and-white striped dhoti, bends over a black stone lingam on a black pedestal, pouring or offering with a small vessel. Behind him stand painted and ornately dressed deity murti with garlands of white and yellow flowers, a gold-crowned figure and a bearded figure in a red turban and rudraksha malas. A bare-chested man at left holds a lit oil lamp and wears a rudraksha mala. Small brass figures and a brass kalasha sit at the base of the lingam, and a yellow cloth lies on the floor.

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