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A seated long-haired figure in an orange-red robe sits on the left end of a long row on a bare floor, gesturing with one hand toward a line of guests eating from steel thali plates with steel tumblers. On the right, four adults in white kurtas and one in a white shawl sit cross-legged along the rows of plates, and a small boy in a light tunic sits on a ledge at the upper right. A patterned dark runner and a green mat line the floor. Open arches and dry trees appear through the windows behind.

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