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A devotional abhishekam-style scene in a small room with orange and red drapes. At the centre, a seated figure in a red garment and a crown-like headpiece is almost completely covered in pink and red flower petals, with white flower garlands hanging from the figure. Devotees around him scatter petals and offer fruit: a man in a red shirt and a bare-chested man in a white dhoti reach toward the figure, and a woman in a white sari with a gold border holds a small plate of fruit. A woman in a maroon sari stands near a gong, and a young girl in a pink top and purple skirt watches. A photographer with a DSLR camera leans in from the foreground, and a bare-chested devotee with a rudraksha mala and a long braid stands at left. A woman in an orange sari with white jasmine in her hair is in the lower right. The figure's identity cannot be confirmed from appearance alone, so the central figure is described by role only.

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