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Crowded indoor event where devotees gather around a low wooden table piled with green leaves. In the centre, a bald man in an orange-brown shawl and a white dhoti, wearing a wooden rudraksha mala, leans over the table and handles a leaf, while a man in a white dhoti with a yellow border in the lower right sorts greens from a bowl. Around them, men in white and orange, a bearded man in a blue-and-white striped shirt, and others with tilaka marks press in closely. a person is not clearly identifiable from appearance, so the central figure is described by role only.

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