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Outdoor photo of many devotees seated on red-brick tiered steps at a ritual site, hands pressed in namaskar with eyes closed. Rows of black stone shivalingas with round yoni-style bases fill the steps, with brass kalashas and small brass vessels placed among them. A woman in the foreground wears a red blouse with a white sari and a rudraksha-style mala; men in white dhoti-style cloth and bare upper bodies, some with red or beaded malas, sit in the rows, and others in white clothes are visible further back. Walls, flags and trees form the background. The scene suggests a Maheshwara puja or shivalinga ritual, with roughly thirty to forty people visible. No visible a person candidate can be confirmed among those present.

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