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Outdoor ceremony on a lawn before a white colonial-style building. A seated figure in saffron-orange robes and an orange turban sits on an ornate golden throne (peetha) heaped with red, orange and yellow marigold garlands, with golden parasols (chhatras) above and trident-topped staffs at its sides. Two men at left in orange shawls and white dhotis stand near brass ritual vessels and flower-draped lamps; one holds a microphone. A bald man in orange robes stands at right with a long-handled fan or chamara near the throne. Dozens of seated devotees in white clothes and orange-red shawls face the throne, many with hair tied back, and a few hold phones.

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