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A man in saffron-orange robes with a red-bordered cloth pours water from a brass vessel over a large, weathered, dark rock outdoors. He stands on dry earth beside the rock, which is mottled with lichen and wet from the pouring, and small white and pink flowering plants grow around it along with fan-palm fronds. Behind him, another person in white clothing sits partly visible on the ground at the right edge. The rock appears to be an object of ritual worship being bathed in a manner consistent with abhishekam. The man has short dark hair, a bare head, and his face is turned away from the camera, and nothing visible clearly establishes him as a specific individual, so no identity is asserted.

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