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Seen from behind through an open doorway, several devotees sit on a tiled floor in a small plain room facing an altar. Most wear white cloths and white headbands; one woman in a red sari with a blue blouse and a braid wears a white headband, and another woman in a yellow sari sits at the right with hands folded in namaskar. On the wall above the altar hangs a framed photograph of a seated figure with long hair, wearing an orange robe and a rudraksha mala, seated before a banyan tree and framed by a garland of flowers; a small framed photo sits on the altar. A marked figure in orange and rudraksha appears in the wall portrait, and a separate small photo of a woman is also placed on the altar with a brass plate and lamp. Because the wall portrait shows a candidate with distinctive saffron robe and rudraksha cues, it is labelled a person as a depiction.

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