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Indoor temple-style hall where devotees in white dhotis and orange shawls gather around a silver-decorated seat. A bearded man in saffron-brown robes with long swept-back hair and a rudraksha mala sits on the right, smiling and handling an orange cloth, while others in orange sashes and white clothes drape or hand over orange cloth. On the left, a shaved-headed priest in white with sandalwood markings on his chest wears a rudraksha mala. A woman in a dark top and rudraksha beads stands near the centre, holding orange fabric. Silver lion-like figures sit on the seat, and framed photos hang on the walls behind.

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