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Outdoor photograph beneath a large banyan tree with hanging aerial roots. A saffron-robed sadhu with a flaming wick or lamp is performing an aarti or pooja before a black stone shivalinga or deity murti draped in white cloth and garlanded with yellow and red marigold garlands. Beside him stands a woman in an orange sari with orange head covering and an older figure in a red robe holding a walking staff. A bearded man in a saffron dhoti and shawl stands barefoot to the right. Two men in dark jackets and shirts stand with palms joined in namaskar on the left. Several onlookers, including a man in a white shirt with a camera, watch from the background. Offerings of flowers and red cloth lie at the base of the shivalinga.

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