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A photograph of a padapuja at a devotee's house in Bangalore. A man with long dark hair, wearing a maroon and gold-bordered dhoti, a white floral garland, rudraksha beads and gold armlets, sits on a red cushion holding up a silver staff. Seated on a patterned mat, devotees in white and orange garments wash his feet from a brass plate with fruit and flowers. A young man in white kneels on the right, a woman in a white sari with a red blouse assists, and two shaved-head boys in orange robes sit nearby. A woman in a pink top and scarf stands at the back by a white wall with an orange cloth hanging above.

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