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A seated puja gathering in a bright hall, with several men sitting cross-legged on white cloth. In the centre, a man with long dreadlocks, bare-chested and wearing a white dhoti with gold border, sits with palms pressed together in namaskar and eyes closed, a white horizontal tilak and a red dot on his forehead. Others around him, also bare-chested with white ash markings, rudraksha malas and white dhotis, sit with hands folded. Small oil lamps flicker on the floor in the lower left, and a brass vessel stands nearby. The central man has distinctive long dreadlocks and rudraksha cues, but his identity cannot be confirmed from appearance, so no specific identification is made.

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