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A photograph of a seated man in a brown-orange dhoti-style garment and a long rudraksha mala, with a red bindi on his forehead, sitting on an ornate gold throne. He reaches into a large polished silver vessel filled with yellow paste and offers a handful to a young boy in an orange robe with a shaved head, white forehead marking and a necklace of coin-like pendants, who smiles and holds out his hands. A red cloth lies over the vessel edge, with orange cloth and a red cushion behind. The setting appears to be a ritual or devotional gathering. Appearance-based label: the seated man shows some cues (rudraksha mala, brown-orange ceremonial cloth, gold throne) but the face and full presentation are not conclusively distinctive, so identity is uncertain.

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