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Night-time outdoor ritual on tiered red-and-white steps lined with strings of lights. Many men, most bare-chested in white dhotis, sit beside black stone shivalingams and brass pots, pouring liquid from brass vessels over the lingams in abhishekam. Several women in white and yellow saris and red garments watch from the upper steps. Small oil lamps and scattered flowers sit on the lingams, and a brass bowl rests in the foreground. A white-haired man in the right foreground pours from a conical brass vessel while a towel hangs over his shoulder. No person is identified as a person.

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