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A photograph of a ritual initiation in a temple-style hall. On the left, a fair-haired young man with bare chest wears a white dhoti-style cloth with gold border and a rudraksha mala, hands raised to his head. On the right, a figure with long dark dreadlocked hair, ornate gold earrings, gold necklaces and rudraksha malas, wearing a saffron-red robe with gold-colored embellishments and red-and-gold armbands, places a hand on the young man's head in blessing. Behind them, several men in white dhotis with gold borders and rudraksha malas stand, and a gold deity murti and an oil lamp are in the foreground. The figure on the right has distinctive ornate adornments and long hair, so the appearance is a probable match to the page's a person reference.

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