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A dense seated crowd of devotees at an evening gathering. Most people sit cross-legged on the ground in white shirts and mundus, women in sarees of red, orange, yellow and blue-green, with a few in white. Some wear rudraksha malas. A man in the back row stands in white with a mala at the right edge, and another standing man in white with a mala appears behind the crowd. Foliage and a banana plant frame the upper left. No single prominent figure is clearly identifiable as a person.

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