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An outdoor gathering in a palm-lined compound sits in rows on sandy ground before a low white building with red doors and a green corrugated roof. In the centre, a seated figure wears a saffron-orange robe with rudraksha beads and sits cross-legged facing the crowd. Behind and to the left, a shaved-headed man in white robes with an orange shawl stands near a dark stone lion-like statue, and rows of seated devotees in white and yellow-trimmed garments, women in pink, orange and maroon saris, and children fill the foreground. Stone statues line the grounds in the background. The scene resembles a satsang or sarvadarshan session; the seated saffron-clad person is a person candidate by appearance, though the view is distant.

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