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A photograph inside a room with yellow walls and a striped multicolour rug where devotees sit in rows on the floor for a ceremony. In the foreground, a bare-chested man with a topknot, rudraksha mala and white dhoti sits cross-legged beside a man with white vibhuti markings and a rudraksha necklace, both holding their hands together. Women in silk saris sit nearby: one in a magenta blouse and gold sari, another in red with gold bangles, and another in purple with gold border. Behind a stanchion, a woman in a green sari and an older woman in a brown sari sit in chairs, and a man stands in the background near a tripod-mounted camera. A deity murti stands on a pedestal at the back, and an orange cloth draped near the wall shows dim light.

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