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A large photograph of a hall during a Guru Purnima offering. In the foreground, rows of polished brass bowls filled with grains, vegetables and sweets sit on red cloth, and a tiered pyramid of brass bowls stacks upward on red-draped steps beside a wooden door. Behind them, a seated audience of women and girls in saffron and orange saris and white clothes fills the hall, with some in saffron garments and one woman in white with a mala at the centre. No one is clearly identifiable as a person in this image, and the visible people are devotees seated in the audience.

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