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A photograph of a stage event with seated spiritual leaders on white sofas in front of a large painted backdrop of a blue river and riverbank. On the left, an elderly bearded man with long white hair sits bare-chested in a white dhoti with a white beaded necklace. At centre, a figure in a rust-red robe with gold necklaces and bangles and a dark turban-like hair wrap gestures while speaking. Beside them, a bearded man in an orange robe and bright orange turban wears a rudraksha mala and sits leaning forward, with a man in a rust-red shawl seated at right. Other monastics in saffron and orange robes sit along the row, and a bearded man in white stands at the back right. The scene suggests a Vaicharik Mahasabha gathering of spiritual leaders. a person cues are present: the orange-turbaned figure wears a rudraksha mala and saffron robe, but identity is uncertain.

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