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A photograph of a padapuja-style ritual in a golden throne room. A man seated on an ornate gold throne with lion-head armrests and a leopard-print and tiger-striped cushion wears a red-brown dhoti-style garment, a long pink and white flower garland, a crown with a white forehead band, and a rudraksha-style mala. His bare feet rest on a tray of rose petals and flowers. A man in white dhoti and shawl with bare upper body, a white forehead mark and a rudraksha mala, kneels at the right, pouring from a small vessel into a silver plate of flowers. A woman in a white sari with glasses sits beside him, and a figure in red sits behind her. Brass bells and oil lamps hang overhead. a person is seated on the throne, identified by the crown, garland and ornate ceremonial setting.

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