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A photograph of a temple-like interior where a long-haired sadhu in saffron-orange cloth with dreadlocks, rudraksha beads and a gold earring bends over a large bronze vessel filled with milky liquid, pouring or stirring with a white cloth-wrapped stick. Beside him a bearded man in reddish-brown robes with a red tilak on his forehead and red wrist thread sits on a low stool, dipping his hand in an orange substance. Behind them a bronze deity murti stands on a pedestal, a white table fan is visible, and another orange-clad person sits in the background. Wrapped in plain orange and red robes, the scene shows ritual ceremony in an ashram setting.

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