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A photograph in a narrow whitewashed corridor of an ashram or temple in Varanasi, with a long row of food-laden plates on a low table along the right. On the right, a smiling man in a deep red-maroon turban, a garland of white flowers and orange marigolds, and a red-and-yellow striped dhoti and shawl stands near the plates. Several saffron-robed sannyasis surround the scene, including a bearded elder on the left with a multicoloured shawl, rudraksha mala and walking stick, and a shaved-headed monk in orange bending forward with hands pressed together in greeting. Other monks in orange and pink robes stand behind, some barefoot, and a man in white is partly visible at the far right. Under the photograph's caption, the right-hand man in the maroon turban and orange garland has some appearance-based cues matching the a person label, though the identification is uncertain.

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