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A large group of devotees, mostly men in white dhotis and shawls with white sacred ash marks on their foreheads and arms, sit cross-legged on orange mats during a puja. In the foreground, two men with rudraksha malas have their hands pressed together in anjali; the nearest holds his hands folded while the man beside him sits with palms joined. Brass oil lamps, a brass thali with fruit, flowers and kumkum, and small brass vessels are arranged on the floor before them. Orange cloth hangings with decorative borders hang from the ceiling, and a row of steel railings separates the seated rows. Other participants in white clothes sit behind, some with eyes closed in meditation. No figure is identified as a person.

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