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Indoor evening ceremony in a plain whitewashed hall lit by bare bulbs. A man in a long orange-brown cloth on the left raises a lit torch overhead while a young attendant in white clothes holds a lit oil lamp. Seated on a white-covered couch in the centre is a figure in saffron-orange robes with a matching turban, wearing a long beaded rudraksha-style mala, with a second orange-robed man seated beside him. Standing wooden poles and a metal lamp stand sit near the couch, and a crowd of devotees fills the foreground at the right. A framed colourful picture hangs on the wall at the right. a person: the seated saffron-robed figure wears a turban and mala, but the appearance is not clear enough for a firm identification.

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