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A large outdoor crowd of devotees seated on tiered red-brown stone steps during a Mahashivaratri event, many with palms pressed together in anjali mudra or hands folded in prayer. Most wear white shirts and dhotis, with yellow and brown booklets held in hands, and several women in white and red saris with bindi and sindoor. A middle-aged man in front wears wire-rimmed glasses, a rudraksha mala and a grey shirt. Some attendees have white cloth draped over their eyes. Visible crowd of roughly several dozen participants.

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