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A photo inside a plain hall with a concrete floor, plastic chairs and an orange armchair. A man with long swept-back dark hair, wearing an orange robe and a rudraksha mala, lights an oil lamp held near two copper kalasha-shaped vessels draped in orange cloth and decorated with pink and white flowers. Beside him a man in a white shirt and white dhoti holds a bell and stands with hands folded. At right a bald young priest in white dhoti and shawl with red borders, wearing a gold necklace, holds his hands in añjali near a gold-and-red throne. Behind them an orange curtain, a tall colourful banner and a framed picture hang on the wall, and a brass lamp stand stands at left. Swamiji (probable): the long-haired man in orange with rudraksha mala is a candidate by appearance and the page indicates his presence.

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