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A crowded photograph inside a bright orange-walled hall with a green carpet and purple drapery. In the centre, a man in a saffron-orange robe and an orange turban with a marigold garland raises his hand in blessing toward a bowing devotee in orange cloth. Around them, saffron-clad sadhus, a bald man in white dhoti with rudraksha mala and a red tilak stands at left, and women in cream and maroon saris stand at right. A gilded shrine with deity murtis is visible at the back right, and a framed portrait hangs on the wall. The man in the orange turban is a person by appearance, presented with a garland and blessing a devotee. Roughly twenty people are visible.

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