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A photograph inside a temple-style hall during a Guru Purnima offering. In the centre-right, a figure with long dark hair swept up in a bun, wearing a red-orange garment, gold armlets, and a floral garland of green and purple beads, sits behind a large arrangement of yellow and white flowers and a tray of fruit and lemons. Beside them a woman in a white and cream sari pours or sprinkles from a steel bowl of white grain, and a golden object sits on a red cloth. Several devotees, some bare-chested in white dhotis and wearing rudraksha malas, stand and crowd behind the offering table, while a man in a white shirt and glasses looks on. A banner in the background shows a figure with a drum.

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