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A large indoor hall with a white-walled upper gallery and green-and-white painted ceiling fans overhead. A dense crowd of men in white shirts and white dhotis stands on the floor, many wearing orange-saffron shawls draped over their shoulders, several with arms raised. Spectators line the upper balcony and railings. Garlands of white and orange decoration hang along the gallery, and a red carpet runs across the floor toward the front of the hall. No clearly identifiable figure is distinguished from the crowd in this view.

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