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A photograph of a temple kumbhabhishekam ritual in an open temple courtyard with colourful painted pillars and a red and blue canopy. In the foreground an elderly priest with white hair and a white beard, bare-chested and wearing red-gold silk dhoti and rudraksha malas, holds a brass plate with offerings and a lit lamp. Beside him a young man in a saffron-orange robe with a red flower garland and folded hands stands in prayer, and a younger bare-chested man with a gold chain stands at the right edge. Behind them a man in a white kurta wears a black cord and stands with hands joined, while two men in shirts stand watching. On the left, a brass kalasha wrapped in a red-and-white cloth and decorated with yellow marigolds and banana leaves sits on a white-draped table. Several people visible in the background.

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