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A photograph of an outdoor group in an ashram courtyard with paved stone ground, palm and flowering shrubs, and a peach-coloured building behind. A standing man at left, with long dark hair swept back, wears a rust-red upper cloth and a saffron-yellow waist cloth, with rudraksha malas around his neck and hands on his hips. Around him, boys and young men wear saffron and red cloths and rudraksha malas, with white and sandal forehead markings; several play long curved brass horns, and at right two bald young drummers in saffron cloths beat barrel drums with sticks. Onlookers stand behind them. The man at left has distinctive long hair and rudraksha adornment, but his appearance is not conclusive enough to confirm identity.

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