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Indoor temple-hall ceremony under a white tented ceiling with decorative striped pillars. A bald man in saffron-orange robes and a long beaded mala necklace walks barefoot toward a decorated palanquin/throne draped in gold and garlanded with white flowers; he holds a lit flame in a small metal lamp. A colourful fringed canopy stands at right. Behind him, many devotees in white dhotis and yellow shawls, several in red and orange saris, stand with hands folded or sit on the floor in prayer; a cameraman in white with a yellow shawl films at left, and a drummer is visible in the background. Caption text on the photo references Nithyanandapedia.

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