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A large dark grey Shivalinga with three horizontal white tripundra stripes and a white marking is draped with a garland of multicoloured flowers in red, yellow, green, purple and white. Behind it, on a metal railed platform reached by a steel staircase, several saffron-robed men stand; the central figure, with long dark hair and a red-and-white garland, wears an orange-yellow dhoti and raises one arm toward the lingam. Another man in saffron stands nearby with a shaved head. A red-brick building and a pale sky fill the background.

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