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A bearded man with long dreadlocked hair and a white tilak on his forehead sits smiling on an ornate silver throne with a red velvet seat. He wears a rust-orange robe, a long rudraksha-style mala necklace and a gold chain, and holds a small brass ritual implement with a trident-shaped handle. Behind him, seated devotees in white clothes with orange shawls fill the hall, and a bespectacled man in white with an orange shawl sits at the right. The floor has a striped woven mat, and a large screen glows behind the crowd. a person: the long dreadlocked hair, orange robe, rudraksha mala and ceremonial gold chain are the cues, and he presides from the throne as the central figure of a Mandala process session.