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Night photograph of a ceremony beside a golden throne. A man on the left in orange saffron robes, with a bare upper body, rudraksha beads and a bearded face, holds two lit oil lamps toward a seated figure. The seated person on a gold-framed throne has hands pressed together in namaste, eyes closed, wearing long layered garlands of yellow and red flowers and a dark robe. Smoke rises in the air, and a multicoloured fringed canopy hangs overhead. A flower-garlanded plinth lies at the lower left.

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