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Five men sit in a row at dusk performing puja at dark black stone Shivalingas arranged on stepped stone platforms. Each holds a lit oil lamp or small flame, and the foremost man in the right foreground, with short grey hair, bare upper body and a white dhoti, holds a small brass lamp over the lingam. The men wear white dhotis and rudraksha malas, with sacred ash marks on their chests and arms. Warm flame light and an out-of-focus row of lingams fill the background.

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