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A seated man on a red-draped platform, bare-chested under a maroon-brown cloth, wears a thick garland of red beads and green leaves with gold clasps and gold armbands, and black gloves on his hands. He has long dark hair falling behind his shoulders and a beard, and he smiles while holding a long white rope or cord that stretches out to the left, where a woman in a teal and blue sari with a dark bead necklace and bangles raises her hands, and a young boy in a turquoise kurta watches. Behind them a crowd of devotees in white and coloured clothes stands among green bamboo. A white cup sits on a wooden tray beside him. a person: the long swept-back hair, ornate gold clasps and bead garland fit the depicted person's presentation, and he is in person. A foreground rope and garland suggest a ceremonial activity, but the scene is a seated devotee gathering.

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