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Outdoor photo at a dirt-ground ashram courtyard with flowering shrubs and trees behind. A large crowd of devotees in white clothes, some with backpacks and bags, stands in a loose group facing right. At the right, a man in an ochre-orange robe stands near a raised stone platform holding a plate with offerings, beside a brass lamp and small brass pots. Two men in white dhotis and white shirts play a drum and a horn-like instrument nearby. A person in white kneels at the lower right near a stone structure. The scene looks like a ritual or prayer gathering. No identity is asserted for the robed man; no face-based identification is made.

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