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A seated congregation of many devotees fills a bright hall with pale walls and gold-topped railing posts, all facing forward in prayer. Men sit bare-chested with rudraksha malas and white dhotis edged in gold, some with hands folded or raised in namaskar. Women wear orange or cream saris with rudraksha malas, and a woman in a cream sari with gold border sits in the foreground. Two men in orange robes and rudraksha malas sit near the front. No individual is identifiable as a presiding figure in the visible frame, so no candidate is identified; the scene reads as a satsang or puja gathering.

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