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A photograph in a bare white-walled room with a ceiling fan and barred windows. A man with long dark hair in an orange robe and a long garland of yellow flowers stands in front, his right hand raised in blessing toward a framed portrait of a robed figure on a small blue table. The portrait is garlanded with white flowers; in front of it sit a brass bell, a lit oil lamp, incense sticks, a small brass pot, scattered yellow petals and a pink flower. A second person in orange with a red-bordered cloth stands with his back to the camera at left. A videographer on the right films with a camera on a shoulder rig, and two more men in white stand in the background.

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