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A large crowd of devotees stands and sits in rows along the stepped red-and-white ghats of a pond under an overcast grey sky. Many wear white dhotis, shirts and saris, with some in colourful saris, and many have palms pressed together in namaskar. In the foreground a woman in a white sari with a gold border and a man in white clothes hold their hands folded in prayer. Along the steps, several black stone shivalingams are decorated with white flower garlands, with white-clad devotees seated beside them. Trees and a distant banner-lined bank frame the scene. a person's presence is not visibly confirmed, so no identification is made.

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