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Indoor photograph in a palace hall with white pillars and a chandelier. A bare-chested man in a white dhoti with rudraksha beads stands at center, holding a framed black-and-white photograph of a building. Facing him from the back is a figure in a saffron-orange shawl with long dark hair, whose back is to the camera. Around them stand older men and a woman in white garments and a shawl, several with hands joined in greeting, and a younger man in a cream shirt and white dhoti. A man with shaved head wears a gold necklace and white dhoti. The orange-clad figure has long swept-back hair and a saffron wrap, which are cues consistent with a person as the recipient of the presentation, though his face is not visible.

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