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A photograph inside a large hall with red-curtained windows and wooden partitions, showing a Maheshwara Puja-style gathering of monastic devotees. A bald, bespectacled man in orange robes with a rudraksha mala stands centre-left, receiving an offering from a man in a saffron-and-gold wrap. Nearby, a man in orange with a rudraksha mala holds up a small green offering. Other devotees in orange, maroon and white stand and sit on mats and floor cushions. The figure's appearance is not a clear match for the a person description, so he is treated as an unidentified monastic devotee.

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