A man with short dark hair, wearing a white dhoti-style wrap with a red-and-gold border and a gold-toned bracelet, pours milk from a large gold-toned vessel over a black stone Shivalinga during an abhishekam. The black stone linga with its base stands on a low dark platform in front of blurred colourful deity murtis and figures. The white liquid streams down the stone. - Nithyanandapedia

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A man with short dark hair, wearing a white dhoti-style wrap with a red-and-gold border and a gold-toned bracelet, pours milk from a large gold-toned vessel over a black stone Shivalinga during an abhishekam. The black stone linga with its base stands on a low dark platform in front of blurred colourful deity murtis and figures. The white liquid streams down the stone.

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