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Outdoor photograph of a food distribution at a temple-area gathering under a green canopy. A seated figure in orange turban, orange shawl and gold-bordered orange robe, with long dark hair, reaches out to take food from a stainless steel tray of rice held by a man in white shirt and white dhoti. An elderly woman with glasses, orange shawl and white sari with gold bangles extends her cupped hands toward the tray. Behind them, a man in white shirt and dhoti with a gold chain and a younger man in an orange shawl look on, along with other devotees and attendees in white and orange. Metal pots sit on the ground in the foreground. Probable Swamiji (probable) appears as the seated figure in the orange turban and gold-bordered robe, with distinctive long hair and ceremonial orange-gold clothing, while others are devotees and attendees in white and orange.

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