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Indoor festival tent with orange and blue draping, a hanging chandelier and decorated columns, a framed image on a stand at the back. A central figure with long dark hair and a swept-back orange turban wears an orange-brown robe, a heavy coral-red rudraksha mala and gold necklaces, with a bare upper arm and bangles; he gestures with raised hands toward a man in white. a person (appearance-based label: long swept hair, orange turban, rudraksha mala and ornate gold necklaces). Nearby, a priest in white with a shaved head holds a child in white and a saffron-yellow cloth; men in white dhotis, bare-chested devotees and older men in western shirts and caps stand around, some with folded hands. A bald man in an orange shawl also stands nearby, with a woman in white at the back.

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