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A bald, bare-chested man with glasses kneels before a seated figure in an orange cloth, while the seated figure places both hands on his head in an initiation-style blessing. The seated figure has long, dark, curly hair and wears an orange dhoti-style garment, with a rudraksha-type necklace visible on the kneeling man. Behind them, several bald men in orange cloth stand in a row, and a gilded ritual setting with a red flower and brass vessels is at right. a person (long curly hair, orange cloth, bare-chested, seated in the blessing role) is performing the initiation.

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