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A photograph of a devotional gathering in a hall with a wooden ceiling and fluorescent lights. On the left, a woman with long dark hair wears an orange sleeveless top and a white jasmine garland, with a red rose and white flower garland strung along the left edge. She kneels and holds her hands up toward an older man on the right, who has white hair and a white beard, wears a grey knitted sweater over a white shirt and a rudraksha mala, and holds out a red object to her. A toddler in a dark outfit is held by a woman in a pink sari behind them, and other onlookers in saris stand in the background. Text reads a copyright line and source credit at lower right.

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