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A seated person in an orange-red shawl and dark hair reaches out with both hands toward the head of a young boy in white who bows forward. Brass oil lamps stand behind them, with a leopard-print cushion and a gold-trimmed seat at the right. To the left, a woman in white with a red-brown rudraksha mala and a forehead mark sits with her hand on a girl's forehead, and other people in white and red stand in the background. The scene looks like a blessing or touching-of-the-head ritual in an ashram setting. The seated figure's appearance is not clear enough to confirm identity.

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