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Several young men sit cross-legged on mats in a hall, reciting from open books during a Vedic chanting class for brahmacharis. Most wear white dhotis and white shirts with orange shawls; the man in front-left wears a yellow shawl and holds a book, and another in the centre wears a rudraksha mala and a tilak. A man with a beard in an orange robe sits further back at left. A blue-and-grey bag sits on the floor in front, and a red-flowered painted panel hangs on the right wall.

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