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A photograph of a ritual inside a temple-like open pavilion with pink and white draped fabric overhead. A man with long dark hair and a red-orange garment sits on a red-cushioned gold throne at right, his hands extended with palms together in a gesture of blessing or offering. Before him a bare-chested priest with a garland and a white cloth bundle tied with pink flowers holds offerings. Smoke rises at left near oil lamps and brass vessels on a striped mat. Behind them a white stone shrine holds a deity murti with a gold arch, and a second painted shrine sits above. This is an abhishekam at the Ananda Lingam event at Vaidya Sarovar, with herbal offerings.

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