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Indoor event in a hall with white ceiling fans, red curtains and framed photos on the left wall. A man in an orange-gold turban with a jewelled ornament, wearing a dark red-maroon silk garment, a long rudraksha mala with gold-bead accents, a gold armlet and white sacred ash on his arm, receives a folded paper or card from a bearded man in a white shirt with a red-and-gold patterned shawl. Around them, several men in white shirts and dhotis stand close, some with hands folded in namaste and some with rudraksha malas. A young boy in white stands in the lower foreground, and a man with white ash on his forehead and a white dhoti stands at the far right. a person (in appearance: turban, rudraksha mala, ornate red garment) is shown receiving a paper from the devotee in the centre, with disciples attending.

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