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Photograph of a seated ceremony in a plain room with pink-and-cream walls, seen from behind the audience. A man with long dark hair and a long beaded necklace sits at the top of a white-covered platform, wearing orange robes and a garland, gesturing as he speaks. Around him, saffron-robed men and a few women in white sit on the floor. Brass vessels and bowls are arranged on a cloth in front, and a garlanded body lies covered with white cloth on a table at right beside a glass case. Rows of seated devotees in white and pink shirts fill the foreground. A camera on a tripod is visible at the upper right. a person appears to be the figure seated on the platform, appearance-based probable.

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