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A young boy with short dark hair sits cross-legged on a black and white checkered marble floor beside a doorway. He wears an orange-red dhoti or wrap, a bare upper body marked with white sacred ash stripes on the shoulders and arms, a white tilak with red bindi on his forehead, and multiple rudraksha mala strands around his neck. He holds dark stones over a large brass tray. Nearby are copper and brass vessels, a small brass lamp, a brass spouted pot, a copper bowl, and a golden pedestal with a lotus motif. A timestamp reads 25-May-2022 8:20:19 am.

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