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A photograph of a seated panel on a stage at a religious assembly, with a large painted backdrop showing a robed teacher seated with a palm-leaf or book and a group of students with shaved heads and white cloths, plus an elephant, huts and cattle. Left to right, several sadhus wear saffron and orange robes and rudraksha malas, one with a bald head and a microphone raised as he speaks, another gesturing with folded hands. Center, a bearded man in a cream waistcoat and white dhoti sits beside a white-bearded elder with bare upper body and white cloth. Far right, a woman in a rust-red sari with gold necklaces and bangles, hair in a dark bun, sits with hands clasped. Around the panel, white sofas and additional seated attendees in white and saffron are visible. No person is identifiable as a person from appearance cues alone.

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