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A large indoor hall during a Kalpataru convention at Adi Kailasa. A dense crowd of several hundred seated devotees, mostly in white clothes, fills the foreground, many with their backs to the camera. On a raised stage area beyond, women in white and one in purple sit on a blue-draped platform, with a woman in white standing nearby. At the far right edge, a figure in saffron-orange robes sits on a raised dais beside a backdrop. Tall decorative banners with elephant and geometric patterns in yellow, red and blue hang from the white tent ceiling, and speakers and stage rigging are visible.

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