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A stage performance by children in costume in front of an ornate gold-painted backdrop with carved panels and a red stage cloth. Around twenty young performers stand and sit in a group: several boys bare-chested with pale rudraksha-style beaded necklaces and tall crowns, girls in green, purple, red, yellow and blue saris with pearl garlands, one child in a bright lion-faced mask with a fierce orange mane and crown, another holding a round silver shield, and some holding bows or staffs. Two adults in white and orange sit at the lower left edge in the foreground, partly cropped. Framed photographs hang on the pink walls at the right and left, and an oil lamp sits near the front. The scene is a pageant-style dramatization in an ashram hall.