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Night photograph of a stone Nandi bull statue draped in white cloth with gold borders and garlanded with pink, white and green flowers, its face adorned with a flower crown. A man in an orange saffron dhoti and shawl stands at left holding a brass lamp or puja vessel beside a lit oil flame on the base. Behind him, a person in white dhoti with a yellow sash stands near a yellow notice board. Pink flower petals are scattered across the stone platform in the foreground. This appears to be a Nandi abhishekam or puja ritual at night, with the bull statue as the focus.

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