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A dense crowd presses toward a carved wooden doorway in a tiled interior, with a window grille on each side. Devotees, mostly women in bright saris, some with flowers in their hair and holding flower garlands and offering plates, reach up with raised hands. At the centre of the doorway, a figure in orange-saffron robes stands with one arm raised in greeting, with a cluster of monks in saffron behind him. A framed printed picture is propped in the doorway at lower right. Several people on a staircase at the left look on. The crowd is large but the count of people visible in the frame falls in a broad range.

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