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Two men in orange-saffron silk dhotis with gold borders stand before a decorated shrine during a ritual. The bare-backed man in the centre, wearing a gold-trimmed saffron cloth wrapped at the waist and a gold head ornament, bends to tend polished silver vessels arranged on a granite platform. Behind them a gold canopy shrine is adorned with white jasmine and pink flower garlands, and a lit lamp glows nearby. On the left, a man in an orange garment wears a gold-beaded necklace and a beaded headband, hands folded. A hand holding a silver pitcher pours from the right edge. The setting suggests an abhishekam or puja ritual.

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