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A photograph of a central figure in orange robes wearing a long garland of white and red flowers and a small yellow-and-gold flower tassel, smiling as an older bald man in a white shirt bends forward and reaches toward him. Nearby, a woman with short grey hair and glasses in a white sari with a red-and-white shawl watches, and other people in orange robes and white dhotis with yellow shoulder cloths stand in a row under a colourful ceremonial canopy hung with yellow flower garlands and green coconuts. A woman in orange holds a basket of oranges at right. Printed caption in the lower right reads a and the Nithyanandapedia source. a person candidate is the smiling figure in orange with the flower garland, shown in person; the identification is based on appearance cues only and is uncertain

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