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A kitchen scene in an industrial-style hall with exposed ceiling trusses. Several devotees wearing white hairnets and orange-and-maroon robes with rudraksha malas stir and pour food from large steel pots into a wide steel vessel. A man in a white shirt and black-striped shawl stands among them, and a red gas cylinder sits at the right. A bald devotee in a maroon robe smiles at the right of the group, and additional hairnetted people stand in the background. Service in the kitchen is evident, and no clearly identifiable ceremonial figure is seated on a throne in view.

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