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A photograph inside a small temple shrine with a black-and-white checkered marble floor. A man with a shaved head in orange-saffron robes and a rudraksha mala sits on a low wooden-railed seat beside a large gold-coloured yoni-shaped abhishekam basin with a central lingam opening. Another man in an orange dhoti with a purple-and-gold patterned cloth and an orange shawl stands at left, and several standing devotees in white and checked dhotis and jackets watch from behind. Steel buckets of water and small brass vessels sit at right, a pink cloth is draped near the basin, and a painted deity murti appears in a glass case at top right. Swamiji (probable): the seated figure has long swept-back hair, a ceremonial gold necklace and a saffron-orange cloth, performing abhishekam-style ritual at the lingam.

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