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A photo of a seated group of men in saffron and orange robes at an outdoor stone-paved area beside a wooden bench with black iron armrests, with a dark stone wall and string lights behind them. On the left, an older man with long swept-back grey hair and a saffron shawl wears a beaded rudraksha-style mala. Behind him, a man in a saffron turban and a gold-pendant beaded necklace sits, and another man in an orange shawl with a moustache sits on the bench edge. In the centre, a bespectacled man in an orange robe with a red tilak and a beaded mala sits cross-legged on the ground. On the right, a bare-chested older man with a blue shawl and an orange rosette badge sits on the ground facing him, and a small brass or clay vessel rests near the group. Several more men in orange and white stand in the background.

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