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Outdoor ceremony photograph showing two large white milk or water abhishekam streams pouring over tall stone lingam-like structures on a tiered red-roofed stage. Several saffron-robed figures stand on the upper platform beside the streams, and a dense crowd of white-clad devotees fills the ground below under palm trees. The scene reads as a large public abhishekam or ritual bathing ceremony.

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