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A photograph of a ceremonial padapuja-style ritual indoors. A seated figure on an ornate gold-and-red throne wears a red turban, a saffron-orange garment and a long gold-beaded necklace; he has white markings on his upper arm and holds a small object in his hands. A man in a white shirt and white trousers bends forward with joined hands before the seated figure, with a girl in white and red kneeling in the foreground. Brass vessels, metal cups, a small brass lamp and a kumkum-marked cloth sit on the floor near lit oil lamps, and other attendants in white with red shawls stand or kneel in the background. Red and patterned rugs cover the floor. The seated figure has distinctive ceremonial adornments and a throne, but the appearance is not clear enough to confirm an identity.

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