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Photograph of a ceremony on a stage. A man with long dreadlock-style hair wrapped up in a crown of rudraksha beads sits on a red-and-gold chair, wearing a maroon shawl draped over one shoulder and rudraksha malas, appearing to be the honoured figure of the event. Beside him a woman in an orange-red sari with a long rudraksha mala stands and looks down. An older man with white hair, bare-chested and wearing a white cloth over his shoulder with rudraksha malas, bends forward toward the seated man's hand. Behind them a woman in white with hands folded in anjali stands in the background. Swamiji (probable): the seated man in a maroon shawl with rudraksha crown and malas.

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