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Outdoor ritual scene at a temple-style courtyard. A man in a white shirt and an orange-red shawl with printed script kneels and offers a bundle of papers toward a seated figure on an ornate gilded throne with lion-head armrests. The seated person wears a red-and-maroon robe, a long garland of white, yellow, orange, purple and red flowers, and gold bangles. A woman in a rust-coloured sari with a rudraksha mala stands beside the kneeling man, and a silver ceremonial staff stands in the foreground. Small yellow and orange flower offerings lie on the floor, and a metal plate sits near the throne. The seated figure is an appearance-based a person with long hair, gold earrings and ceremonial garland; the scene reads as a satsang devotional gathering.

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