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A photograph of a seated guru figure in a flower-decorated throne setting at Guru Purnima. The central person wears a red and orange garment, a long multi-strand garland of white, red and yellow flowers, a decorated headpiece with colourful pompoms, and gold bangles; they smile while accepting an offering of a small white item from a devotee in white clothes at the left, hands pressed together. Behind them stands a priest with a shaved head, white forehead markings and saffron cloth with a bead necklace, beside a golden vessel. The throne is backed by a large floral arrangement of yellow, green, red and purple blossoms.

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