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Outdoor ritual photograph at a stone-walled ghat-style setting. A large dark stone lingam is draped with a multicolour flower garland of yellow, red, purple and white blossoms. On a raised white metal platform at upper left, a man with long hair, bare-chested with ash markings on his body and a rudraksha mala, sits in white dhoti performing puja with a small oil lamp and bell. Beside him, another ritual participant wears orange cloth and a shaved head area. Below, rows of seated people in white clothes sit on stone steps before many small oil lamps, with a few in orange and saffron garments among them.

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