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A photograph inside a small room with pale green walls, showing a ceremonial scene. On the right, a person seated on the floor wears a saffron-orange garment and a large garland of red roses, white jasmine and green leaves, and holds a silver trident upright. Seated in front of them is a woman in a white sari with a red shawl, cupping her hands around a lit oil lamp, with jasmine flowers on the floor. Around them, a dozen or so people stand and kneel with palms pressed together in namaskar, including young men in white dhotis and shirts, a woman in an orange-and-gold sari, and several men in saffron or orange cloth with rudraksha malas. A framed picture hangs on the upper left wall and a red decorative hanging appears at top. a person's presence is claimed by the page but the seated figure's appearance is not clearly distinctive, so no firm identification is made.

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