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Photograph of a stage ceremony in a hall with a blue wall and a large white-and-brown painted mountain backdrop. A seated figure in orange robes, with long dark hair and bare feet, sits on an ornate gold throne draped with red and orange flower garlands, holding a small object while a man in white kurta and dhoti stands beside him, touching his shoulder. Two seated men in orange robes sit on the left, one wearing a rudraksha mala, and a man in white dhoti stands at the far left. A woman in white stands behind the throne, and a woman in a blue-and-gold sari and a woman in orange-and-white sit in the foreground, with a blurred woman in a green sari in the lower right. Oil lamps and a small flower arrangement sit near the throne. Presumed homa/tharpanam ritual setting.

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