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A young man in orange saffron garments, bare-chested with the wrap draped over his shoulder, pours water from a golden vessel over a large black Shiva lingam at night. Water streams down the glossy black stone, and a small flower lies on the red base. Behind him are a lit shrine-like structure, garlands of flowers and a lamp. This appears to be a lingam abhishekam ritual. No visible candidate matches the a person description, so no identity is asserted.

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