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A photograph of a ceremonial welcome inside a room with a draped backdrop of orange cloth, red and gold swags and white garlands. A man seated centrally wears a brown-red robe, a tall white-and-gold crown and heavy layered garlands of white and pink flowers, with a bead necklace; a clean-shaven man with a bare upper body and white wrap stands behind him. Attendants shower pink petals from baskets, one man in a red shirt, a woman in a red sari with a mala, and a woman in glasses holding a basket of yellow fruit. In the foreground a man in white ritual marks and rudraksha beads and a bespectacled man holding a fruit reach toward the seated figure, while a woman in a red sari stands at the right holding a drum-like instrument.

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