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Evening outdoor ceremony beside a large illuminated tank with a stepped stone edge, lined with tiered seating and strings of yellow-orange marigold garlands. A bearded man with long dark hair, wearing a saffron-orange shawl, a pink floral garland and a rudraksha-style bead necklace, sits on a raised seat at left and receives a folded saffron cloth from a bald, bare-chested priest in white dhoti with gold border and a rudraksha mala. A long-handled trident-like staff and a brass ritual lamp stand in the foreground; a film camera on a tripod records the scene at right. Women in white and orange attire stand and sit along the steps, and a golden deity murti stands on a pedestal at upper right. Probable Swamiji seated, based on long hair, saffron clothing, rudraksha beads and garland.

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