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Night ritual scene with many devotees seated in rows on stepped platforms, each holding small oil lamps or lit wicks in front of black stone lingams on pedestals. Foreground: a bare-chested man in white dhoti and a woman in orange-and-black patterned dress lighting lamps. Behind them, a woman in white top and pink trousers with a beaded necklace, a woman in green skirt with a long-sleeved blue blouse, and others in white and saffron clothing. Strings of coloured lights and brass vessels are visible, with a temple-like canopy at upper right. The setting suggests a lamp-lit puja or Rudra Abhishekam gathering.

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