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Indoor photo in a room lined with bookshelves and a wooden door. Seated at centre, an elderly bearded man in a green striped top and saffron-orange dhoti wears a rudraksha mala, a white forehead mark and a headpiece, with a red shawl behind him. Facing him on the left, a long-haired man in a red-brown cloth and gold necklace gestures. Standing right, a man in white shirt and white dhoti with rudraksha beads and a gold chain presses his palms together in greeting, while other men in white dhotis and orange-gold shawls stand behind, one holding an orange cloth. A man in white dhoti with white forehead marks kneels at lower right with folded hands before a silver plate on the floor.

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