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A large hall with a white draped ceiling and many colourful painted parasol umbrellas overhead. Seated devotees eat from metal plates at tables with orange cloths during a food offering. A man on the left in a peach kurta with a rudraksha mala holds a plate of food. A woman in an orange and red outfit with a lanyard eats from a steel plate, and a woman in white with a rudraksha mala eats beside her. An older woman in a magenta sari with an orange blouse and rudraksha beads sits with hands folded. A bare-chested man in white dhoti sits at right.

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