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Photograph inside a small room with pale yellow and orange walls, a wall-mounted flat-screen TV and a wooden table holding small brass items and a plant. A central figure with long swept-back dark hair, rudraksha malas and gold armlets wears a red-orange wrap and bends forward over the table in prayer. To the right, a shaved-headed man in saffron-orange robes and beaded malas stands with his hands together. At left, a person in a white shirt is partly visible, and in the background another saffron-robed person handles items at a low table. Trays of puja items and a small lamp stand on the table.

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