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Indoor ceremonial hall under white draped ceiling with red and lantern decorations. Foreground shows a seated bearded man in white ritual dress with a garland, a woman in a red sari and white-capped attendants serving food from steel trays. Several saffron-robed monastics in orange dhotis and shawls stand and move across a colourful striped mat. A standing bald monastic in an orange robe with a rudraksha mala is at left. Behind, a decorated deity murti with garlands and a red-and-gold umbrella sits on a platform, and a wall display of framed photographs and a monitor with a photo are visible. A photographer in white stands near the mat. Offerings of rice and food fill the steel trays, consistent with a food offering ritual.

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