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Night ritual scene of many devotees seated on tiered stone steps lined with black Shivalinga-shaped stands, each holding a small oil lamp with a flame. Strings of lights run along the wall behind. Several people are bare-chested with white dhotis, others wear white kurtas, saffron and red shawls, pink and blue saris and salwar kameez. A man in a white shirt and rudraksha mala stands on the steps at the top left. A bald man in white dhoti sits at centre-front beside a child, and a woman in a pink sari sits at right. Lamps and devotees fill the frame. No one in the scene is identifiable as the a person with confidence.

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