A person in a red-orange wrap cloth stands in a doorway of an ochre-walled shrine, pouring liquid from one hand over a black stone Shiva lingam on a dark square yoni-peetha base. A hanging terracotta pot hangs from a cord at upper left, and a steel vessel sits on the floor at right. Carved pink stone finials are visible on the right wall beside the doorway. - Nithyanandapedia

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A person in a red-orange wrap cloth stands in a doorway of an ochre-walled shrine, pouring liquid from one hand over a black stone Shiva lingam on a dark square yoni-peetha base. A hanging terracotta pot hangs from a cord at upper left, and a steel vessel sits on the floor at right. Carved pink stone finials are visible on the right wall beside the doorway.

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