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A photograph of a riverside ritual on the Ganga ghat. A man with long dark hair tied back, wearing a rudraksha mala and saffron-orange cloth with yellow borders, sits cross-legged on a leopard-print mat and pours from a silver cup. Silver kalasha pots and a silver abhishekam vessel stand on a maroon and gold brocade cloth before him. Behind them, seated devotees in orange and red garments, some in white, watch with hands folded. A cameraman with a video camera on a tripod films from the right, and a shaven-headed attendant in orange cloth stands nearby. The scene suggests an abhishekam at the Ganga ghat.

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