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A photograph of a home-visit ritual indoors. A central seated figure wears an orange-draped armchair setting, a red-brown robe with gold-edged sash, a long white and multicoloured flower garland, rudraksha beads, and a vibhuti/kumkum mark on the forehead; he holds a tall silver staff upright. Offerings of oranges and fruit sit in a wooden box at right, where a man in white dhoti and shawl bends forward. A woman in a red-and-white striped sari with a flower in her hair presses her palms together in front, and a seated man in a white shirt watches. A saffron-robed attendant stands at left beside a wall fan. A small oil lamp burns with pink flowers on the floor before the seat. a person is the seated figure, based on his orange-draped seat, rudraksha beads, garland and staff.

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