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A nighttime ceremonial welcome at an ashram courtyard with a crowd of devotees behind. A woman in an orange-red saree offers a brass plate of lit oil lamps and flower petals to a woman in a deep blue and gold saree wearing a white flower garland and a maang tikka. Beside her a man in white with a red-bordered shawl and a long white flower garland stands with a second woman in a blue saree and white jasmine in her hair. Tall green bamboo leaves hang at the top right. Rudraksha beads and gold chains are visible. No identifiable a person figure is present in this scene.

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