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A long row of seated devotees in saffron-orange robes and matching orange turbans sits cross-legged on a white tiled floor during a communal meal. Many have their hands pressed together in anjali mudra, and some wear rudraksha malas and sandalwood tilak. In front of them, banana-leaf plates line the floor, each holding rice, flatbreads, sweets, fruit and side dishes, with steel tumblers set beside them. The scene looks like an annadan or prasadam meal at an ashram hall. A few devotees have leopard-print headcloths, and one has a pale-skinned companion seated among them in the row.

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