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Outdoor evening gathering on a raised white-draped platform with ornate pink sandstone railings and a crowd of devotees behind. A bearded man with long hair, wearing a saffron-orange robe with a red shawl and holding a small mala, sits cross-legged at a microphone with hands in anjali, flanked by monks in orange robes and rudraksha malas and a man in white with a gold pendant. Golden tridents stand upright, and a brass oil lamp burns in front. A small statue of Shiva with a tiger-skin draped figure is in the lower right foreground. Several men in saffron and yellow clothing sit with hands folded, and a boy in yellow kneels nearby.

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