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A photo from a ceremony on a red-carpeted stage with red curtains and stage lights. A man with long dark dreadlocks, a white tilak on his forehead, a red-maroon shawl, rudraksha-style beads and gold bangles and ornate gold necklaces extends his right arm toward a kneeling elderly priest in white dhoti and bare chest with a rudraksha mala who bows his head toward a golden lion-head armrest. A standing man with clasped hands in white dhoti and red-orange shawl stands at left, and a woman in white sari with red border and a long mala holds a red-and-gold object behind them. A gold-embossed backdrop and a silver kalasha-like vessel appear at the edges. Possible a person candidate: the seated man with long swept-back hair, ornate gold jewellery and red shawl is a probable match on appearance cues, uncertain given the page says no.

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