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Devotees in white clothing sit during a ceremony in a hall with red curtains and white pillars. In the foreground, a woman with glasses, a braid and white tilak on her forehead wears a rudraksha and crystal mala and chants with eyes lowered. Beside her, an older woman in a red headwrap and white shawl with a red and black rudraksha mala also has her eyes closed. Other participants in white and a woman in a green sari sit behind them. No one in the scene is identifiable as a person.

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