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Photograph of several men standing waist-deep in water beside a pink-painted concrete pool edge with metal railings and a white tiled wall behind them. Two dark stone lingam-like stones draped in black cloth and marked with yellow and pink flower petals stand in the water in the foreground. One man in the centre wears a dark shawl and holds a metal pot-shaped object near his chest; a bearded man beside him holds his hands in anjali mudra. A shirtless man in an orange cloth with rudraksha beads stands at back left, and another man with long hair and a beaded necklace stands at right with hands folded. A man in the foreground with a grey topknot and a light towel over his shoulder faces the group from the water. Bare-chested and in wet cloths, they appear to be performing a water ritual.

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