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Photograph of a crowded indoor gathering with a low fabric ceiling and rough plastered walls. A central figure in an orange-red saffron robe and matching orange turban wears a heavy brown rudraksha mala and is smiling while a hand rests on the head of a bare-headed devotee. A man in a yellow-and-red patterned turban and white shirt, garlanded with marigolds, smiles beside him. Around them devotees press close: a long-haired bare-chested man with orange tilak, a man in orange with gold necklaces and shaved head, and smiling men in white shirts and orange lanyards. Several others are in white kurtas and orange-striped prayer shawls. The scene reads as darshan or blessing. Visible people number about ten.

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