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A photograph of a stage event with a bright orange backdrop showing Kannada text and a large painted goddess face with red and gold ornaments. A standing man in a white dhoti and white shawl, wearing a turban and a heavy gold necklace with a large gold pendant and garlands of yellow and red flowers, takes a white gift bag from a monk in orange robes at left. A woman in a pink saree receives a white box from a central gold-and-red throne area. A seated elderly sadhu with a long grey beard and matted hair, in orange and gold, presses his palms together at right. A woman in a magenta saree stands at far right. Marigold garlands decorate the golden throne. Visible people number four, with several more partially visible.

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