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A seated figure with long dark matted hair, wearing a rust-red wrap and a large rudraksha mala with ornate gold-toned beads, places a hand on the head of a kneeling man in white clothes with a red-and-orange shawl and folded hands in anjali. Behind them, several people in white and red-orange garments stand, and a gilded lion-headed throne armrest is in the foreground. A red curtain hangs at right. The gesture suggests a blessing or darshan at a ritual gathering.

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