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A photograph of two people exchanging small sweets at a table. On the left, a man with long swept-back dark hair and a red bindi wears an orange-saffron cloth draped over his shoulder, a dense rudraksha mala and a ceremonial gold bead necklace; he extends his hand toward a woman on the right. She wears glasses, a pink and white floral sari with a shawl, gold bangles and earrings, and holds out her cupped palms to receive prasad. In the background a third person in orange robes bends forward. The table holds apples, sweets wrapped in plastic, and a silver-framed object at the left edge. Swamiji (probable): the man on the left shows long swept-back hair, saffron clothing, rudraksha and gold ceremonial necklaces, and is distributing prasad.

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