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A group of young sannyasi-clad musicians sit on a mat playing devotional percussion in a hall. In the foreground a boy in glasses and an orange robe with rudraksha mala strikes a small hand drum with sticks, and a teenager with a white tilak on his forehead plays a similar drum. Behind them, others in saffron robes play a large drum, cymbals and a brass horn, and a small child in orange joins in. A white-clad elder sits at the upper left. The scene is a satsang musical accompaniment.

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