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A photograph of a ritual initiation scene. In the foreground right, a bearded man with long matted dreadlocks, bare-shouldered and wearing a red-orange cloth and rudraksha mala necklaces, extends his right hand toward a woman on the left who has a red tilak on her forehead and her hair tied up. Behind them, several men in white dhoti cloth and bare upper bodies sit with dreadlocked or tied-up hair and beaded necklaces; one younger man in the centre wears a red bindi and a large rudraksha mala. A dark red curtain hangs at the back. A metal staff or rod runs diagonally across the lower right. The scene appears to be a darshan or deeksha blessing among devotees.

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