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Indoor reception in a draped room with dark red curtains and gold-patterned walls. Two elderly men in saffron-orange robes sit on an orange tufted sofa with gold trim; the man in the middle has a white beard and bare feet, and the man on the right wears a rudraksha mala and sits with hands folded. A bald man in an orange shawl sits on the right foreground. On the left, a young boy in white dhoti with a red shawl and a bald man in rust-red robes sit on an orange shag rug, and a man with a white tilak sits near a gold throne-like chair. A bald man in rust-red with a rudraksha mala and gold necklace sits in the center. Two pairs of ritual staffs stand against the wall.

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