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Photograph of a seated ceremony on a red-cushioned bench before a large pink banner with Kannada text and a painted deity figure. A man on the right in a rust-red turban, orange-saffron shawl and multiple rudraksha-style mala garlands with orange and red flower garlands smiles and reaches toward a bundle wrapped in pink cloth. Beside him an elderly man with a white tilak on his forehead, white and dark bead necklaces and an orange robe holds out the wrapped bundle. A partially visible person in the foreground and another with a bare head at the bottom edge frame the scene. Appearance cues for the man on the right are a rust turban, saffron shawl and mala garlands, which may suggest a person, but identification is uncertain.

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