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A seated feast in a plain hall with pale pink walls and tiled floor. Many saffron-robed sadhus sit in rows, some wearing orange turbans and rudraksha malas, eating from round steel plates arranged on the floor with water bottles beside them. Several low wooden tables hold more plates and steel vessels. In the foreground, a bald man with a yellow tilak and orange robes eats with his right hand, next to a man in orange with a rudraksha mala and ceremonial beads who is also eating. An elderly sadhu with a white beard and orange turban sits at right with layered bead necklaces. A bearded man in red and a young man in yellow stand or sit near the left, and a young girl in orange sits at far left. Photo watermarked as archive material is omitted from the description. This is a bhandara (community feast) for sadhus, with a shaved-headed man in orange at centre.

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