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A photograph of a home padapuja visit. A man seated on a red cushion at left wears a saffron-red robe with gold border, a white flower garland, multiple rudraksha malas and gold armbands, and extends his hand toward a brass tray of flowers and fruit. Beside him a young boy in orange robes and a rudraksha mala holds the tray. A woman in a white sari with a black mala sits on a patterned rug with hands near a lit oil lamp, and a younger woman in white sari and a man in white kurta sit nearby. Behind them a person in orange robe with a rudraksha mala holds a camera. Apples sit in a wooden crate at lower left. a person at the left, seated and receiving the padapuja: long swept-back hair, rudraksha malas, gold armbands, and saffron-red robe.

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