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A photograph of an indoor hall with pink-red walls, red curtains and fluorescent ceiling lights. In the foreground, a man with swept-back hair, a crown-like gold-toned ornament, red-orange robes, a long rudraksha mala and ornate gold bangles raises one palm toward a bearded man in a peach-coloured shirt with white tilak. Behind them, a man in red-orange robes and a rudraksha mala stands beside a toddler in white being held by a man in white. Devotees in white and a man in a blue shirt stand near metal stanchions. The swept-back-hair figure with rudraksha and gold cues is a person candidate in an appearance-based sense, while the others are devotees and sannyasis.