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Night-time ritual at a Rudra Abhishekam-style ceremony on a red-draped platform. Two bare-chested priests in white dhotis sit with their backs to the camera, one wearing a purple head cloth and the other a yellow cloth over the shoulder. In front of them stand rows of brass kalashas and pots decorated with yellow marigold garlands and white cloth, alongside wooden trays of flowers and offerings. A brass vessel sits at the lower left, and a tripod-mounted camera operator stands behind. Smoke rises from the back of the stage. Seated devotees in white, one in a straw hat, watch from the foreground.

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