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Outdoor photograph at dusk of devotees performing abhishekam on rows of black stone shivalingams set on square pedestals along a paved path. Several people in white clothes with orange saffron shawls pour from brass pots holding pink flowers. A man in front wears a white kurta and grey trousers and bends toward a lingam. Behind him, a man in a white kurta and orange shawl holds a brass pot and walks barefoot, with a rudraksha-style mala visible at his neck. A woman in a blue and white sari and orange shawl pours from a pot on the right. Small name plates sit in front of the lingams, and red-and-white kerb stripes border the path. String lights and a floodlight glow above.

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