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A joyful celebration in a hall decorated with hanging colourful paper lanterns and cylindrical streamers. A bearded man in an orange-saffron robe with a tall orange-red turban and a gold necklace with rudraksha malas sits cross-legged on a tiger-striped seat, laughing with raised fist, the central figure of the scene. Beside him is a polished brass bull statue (nandi). Around him, devotees in orange and saffron clothing, some bare-chested with purple and white dhotis, dance and raise their arms. Swamiji (probable): the seated man in the saffron robe and turban wears distinctive ornate gold necklaces and rudraksha malas and is shown as the honoured central figure. A gold staff with a finial stands at the right edge.

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