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A photograph of a home visit in a bright room with cream walls. A man seated on an orange-cushioned seat wears a bare chest, an orange-red dhoti, a long red-and-yellow flower garland, a rudraksha mala and gold armlets, and holds a silver ceremonial staff topped with a crescent-shaped ornament. He smiles and lifts the staff toward visitors. Around him a family kneels and stands with hands folded in namaste: an older man in white shirt and a woman in white sari, a young girl in white kneeling with palms pressed together, a child in pink, and a bald young man in saffron robes with a rudraksha mala. Many onlookers stand behind in white shirts, saris and colourful salwar kameez, and a garlanded woman in orange holds a bouquet at left. A round table with fruit and a white flower garland sit in the foreground.

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