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Photograph of a ritual in a temple-style hall. A bearded man with long swept-back hair, wearing a red-orange shawl and a tilak, sits on an ornate gold throne with a large gold halo-backed peetha behind him. Before him a silver bowl and a low gold stand hold offerings, and he appears to be scooping yellow material from the bowl. A kneeling attendant in red-orange cloth sits at left and another woman in a red sari with a rudraksha mala kneels at right, while women in red saris stand at the right edge holding bowls of yellow offerings. Two men in white with head covers stand behind the throne. Gold deity statues flank the scene, and a striped mat covers the floor. a person: the seated man has long swept-back hair, a red-orange shawl and a tilak, and is seated on a throne, consistent with the page's reference to a person.

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