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A group of men gathered indoors in a decorated hall with tinsel and streamers overhead. A central seated figure in an orange-red robe and a rudraksha mala sits on a red-orange chair, with a white tilak on the forehead, palms pressed together. Around him, seated devotees in white dhotis and shirts, some with white tilak marks, press their palms together in namaste. Standing men in saffron-orange and red-brown sacred cloths stand behind, and a golden deity murti and a golden framed arch sit at the right beside arranged ceremonial implements.

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