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A photograph of a ceremonial blessing. A bare-chested man with long dreadlocked black hair, a white forehead mark, rudraksha malas and a red-brown dhoti with gold border stands at right, placing his right hand on the forehead of a kneeling man in white clothes with an orange shawl and rudraksha beads. The kneeling man holds a small folded white paper. Behind them stand several people in white and orange-red garments with rudraksha malas, and a gold-decorated wall is visible. Visible people: about six or seven.

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