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A group of devotees sits on white and red-striped steps in front of an orange-walled building with a metal grille door. The man in front center wears a green turban, a white kurta and a white lanyard badge, with hands clasped over a black bag. Beside him a man on the left wears white clothes and a white forehead mark. Behind them a woman in a pale blue-patterned bag sits in white, a blonde woman in white with a rudraksha-style necklace rests her chin on her hand, a woman in white with a long skirt sits beside a woman in a yellow top and grey trousers, and a man in white sits on the far right. Floor kolam designs are painted in red and white on the steps. No swami or a person figure is clearly identifiable among the seated people.

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