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Indoor hall with cream walls, arches and a balcony where several onlookers stand. A man with long swept-back dark hair, vertical white tilak and red dot on the forehead wears an orange-saffron garment with a red and green flower garland and ornate gold-coloured medallion necklaces; he holds papers and a small blue-and-white booklet. In front of him a woman with dark hair in a braid, wearing a dark maroon top and white sari, stands with palms pressed together in namaskar. Beside her a young girl in pink and a young woman in glasses in white with an orange shawl look on. Red velvet trays with offerings and a green carpet lie in front of the man. A shaved-headed young man in saffron stands behind, and white-clad attendants are nearby. The man's appearance matches the page's reference to a person, a probable identification based on visible cues.

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