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A photograph in an ashram hall with peach-coloured walls and a framed portrait labelled "Vinayaka" hanging high on the left wall. A standing man in an orange-saffron dhoti and shawl, wearing a long multicoloured flower garland with a rudraksha mala, smiles while two men in white kurta-style clothing bow and touch the floor in reverence; one presses palms together, the other bends low to touch a folded white paper on the tiled floor. A black bag sits at the lower right and a small amount of a second garland appears at the left edge. This appears to be a paduka puja, with the devotees honouring the standing man through the ritual of touching the floor.

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