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Outdoor photo of a large crowd seated on red-brick tiered steps beside rows of black stone Shiva lingams set on round yoni-shaped bases with brass kalashas and small brass pots. Many people sit with palms pressed together in namaste, eyes closed or lowered in prayer. Nearest, a woman in a white top and black leggings sits with hands folded, and a woman in a white outfit with an orange shawl and red-bead mala sits with hands folded at right. A bare-chested man in white dhoti sits with a rudraksha mala. Others wear saris in pink, red and turquoise. A woman in a red top and white-and-blue shawl at upper right also prays with hands joined. A dense crowd fills the background, roughly 100 or more people visible across the steps, all facing the same direction in devotional posture.

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