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Seated devotees in a row before a red curtain at an indoor ritual gathering, several reading small booklets or puja manuals with rudraksha malas around their necks. In the foreground a man in a white kurta looks down at a printed book, and to the left a bald man in white wears a rudraksha mala. A seated man in a white kurta holds a small card and an open book, while another in a black embroidered shirt reads from a book. A tripod-mounted camera stands at the upper left, and an altar with brass and gold ritual items is partly visible at the lower left edge. Several people are visible, though faces are largely turned down toward their books.

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