A large dark stone lingam is decorated with a garland of red, yellow, white and green flowers and bands of silver metal. On a metal platform beside it stands a man with long matted hair, bare-chested, with white and ash markings on his forehead, raising a brass lamp toward the clear blue sky. Brass vessels stand on the platform and along a metal staircase, where people in saffron-orange cloths are visible. The scene suggests an abhishekam or aarti at a Shiva lingam.