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A photograph inside a temple shrine during a Mahashivaratri ritual. At centre, a man with a tall black turban-style hair wrap, a red-and-gold garment, a long gold necklace and a yellow-and-red marigold garland kneels beside a dark stone platform dusted with white powder, smiling, his hands and forearms white with powder. Behind him a man in an orange garment with white-marked arms kneels and tends the platform. Large golden deity murtis with crowns and red-draped figures stand in a niche framed by tall garlands of yellow, red and purple flowers. A man on the left wears a white forehead mark and rudraksha mala, and devotees with white tilaks are visible at the lower edges. Offerings of flowers and fruit lie on the floor.

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