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A lamp-lighting ceremony at an indoor event with a gold satin backdrop. A bald, saffron-robed monk with a grey beard and vibhuti marks on his forehead bends toward a brass oil lamp with lit wicks, while a man in a white shirt and dark trousers holds a red, white and green rosette and touches the lamp. Beside them stands a bearded man in a white kurta and white skullcap, and further left a man in glasses and an orange shirt smiles. On the right, a man in an orange turban and orange robe with a rudraksha mala stands near a man in orange robes with a white vibhuti line on his forehead, and a woman in an orange sari with a white flower in her hair stands at the edge. Several people are visible, roughly six to twenty, in a cluster of ceremonial attire.

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