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A photograph of a ritual scene in a red-draped hall with a red carpet. On the right, a seated man in a rust-red garment with a gold-bead necklace and gold bangles, flanked by gold ornate chair armrests, receives small folded papers or offerings from a young boy kneeling in white dhoti with a gold border. Between them, a bearded young man with a rudraksha mala, bare upper body and white sacred markings on his forehead and arms, holds papers as well. A figure in white dhoti with a gold-bordered cloth stands at the left edge, and a gold lamp stand rises behind. The scene is a temple-style ceremony with ritual offerings.

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