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Photograph at an Akhila Karnataka Dharmika Santara Samaveesha event under a large orange banner with Kannada and English titles. A man in a gold-bordered orange shawl and white dhoti stands at left, wearing a tilak and a garland, and holds a rudraksha-style garland. At right a man in a maroon dhoti and gold-trimmed shawl wears a long marigold and red flower garland and gestures toward a tray of orange cloth. Behind them a seated elder in orange robes with a shaved head and tilak sits in a gold-upholstered chair, and two more saffron-robed sadhus stand near a pink backdrop. A portrait on the banner shows a smiling man in an orange turban. Watermarked archive photo.

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