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A row of saffron-robed sannyasi priests sit cross-legged on a white tiled floor in a hall with red curtains and wall air conditioners. Each wears an orange shawl, rudraksha mala and white horizontal tilak and arm markings, and several hold long golden horns or spouted vessels over silver bowls and pots on low trays. Silver pots of offerings line the foreground, consistent with a ritual such as abhishekam or puja. Several shaved-headed devotees in white stand in the background. The leftmost priest is a shaved-headed man with a white tilak and rudraksha mala, but his appearance does not clearly establish him as a person.

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