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Night-time temple ritual photograph. A man with a red-and-gold headband and bare chest, wearing rudraksha mala necklaces and an orange-and-gold shawl, is applying white sacred ash to a large white Shiva lingam on a black pedestal. He wears white gloves. Behind him stands a bald man in an orange-brown cloth with a rudraksha mala, and at left a younger man in a white dhoti with a mala. Behind the lingam hangs a large deity murti decorated with multicoloured flower garlands and gold ornaments. At right, a pink and gold silk garment drapes a gilded figure. The setting is a temple shrine with glass panels and carved stone details.

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