Photograph of a food-serving line under a red-pillared open pavilion with trees behind. A man in a black t-shirt with an orange shawl and a rudraksha mala holds a flatbread while a man in an orange shawl serves food from steel bowls onto a plate on a patterned cloth. Other devotees in orange shawls and white clothes stand along the line, with a blue bucket and steel vessels in front. - Nithyanandapedia

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Photograph of a food-serving line under a red-pillared open pavilion with trees behind. A man in a black t-shirt with an orange shawl and a rudraksha mala holds a flatbread while a man in an orange shawl serves food from steel bowls onto a plate on a patterned cloth. Other devotees in orange shawls and white clothes stand along the line, with a blue bucket and steel vessels in front.

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