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Indoor darshan line at an ashram hall. A man in orange robe with a red tilak and bare-chested upper body, long dark hair swept back, places his right hand on the head of a seated woman in a yellow sari with a black beaded mala, who smiles. He sits behind a tray with papers and a small digital clock reading 11:19. Behind them, a bald man in an orange shawl and white dhoti stands beside a young man in white with an orange shawl and rudraksha mala, a devotee in white holds a stack of cards, and a white-clad attendant with a name badge stands near a red curtain. Several spectators line the left edge. The seated man is distinguished by long swept-back hair, orange robe and blessing gesture; appearance-based label only.

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